Weird Science

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Ok, so, China might attack Taiwan if they formally try to become a country of their own. They signed into law an anti-secessation law today [yahoo]. Of course, the US would be the ones to protect Taiwan, should it come to that, and we are talking about a possible nuclear conflict there.

Also, I hear that Israel said that they have plans, and have gotten the go-ahead from the US, to attack Iran's Nuclear facility? We are talking about a possible nuclear conflict here [kaumudi].

I guess these international conflicts have been going on for years and years, so there is nothing really new, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT ALL THESE COUNTRIES ARE ITCHIN ON THE TRIGGER of their nuclear capabilities, like us. I mean, forget mini ipods, its all about our new mini nukes--YAY! [IndMedTV].

Of course, I have to remind myself that none of these countries want their countries obliterated. I heard a great thing on the Ali G dvd that I was watching last night, where he was like "so, what if the leaders of one country, instead of going to war, went over to the leaders of the other country and had it out with them." Hell ya, have them fight in a ring, let them blow off some steam. You know that all of them would probably end up going out for a beer afterwards. Why do we put the leadership of an entire country and our entire arsenal in the hands of so few? Its freaky how we sort of blindly trust these gangs of leaders coming in and out of office to handle things in the best manor. I think we need to decentralize our leadership and create citizen leadership, where we use the internet to vote on stuff and let a few manage that process and what it translates to for our country. Oh yeah, thats sort of how we are doing it now, except our leaders are fucking with the voting so that they can steal the management away from us and slowly take our control away over our government...oh!

Anyway, regarding this nuclear bullshit, I have to also remind myself, that I should not freak out about proliferation, after all, I spent my entire childhood doing that--so much wasted energy worrying about whether the world would blow up overnight. Not that I don't think that its possible (it is, several times over), but, as an adult, it gives me such a headache to think about what is possible with these kinds of weapons of massive destruction. And there really isn't much I can do about it, besides write and talk about it, protest, etc.. Worrying isn't gonna get me anywhere! Right? Now, where is that zoloft...

Nuclear...Weird science, indeed.