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If people knew about Chernobyl, they would think twice about bombing
nuclear facilities. Extreme danger of nuclear contamination is
present regardless if nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons
production is the target. Our world has grown too small for bombing
atomic reactors. Bombing nuclear facilities in Iran to make the
world "safer" is insane - an oxymoron similar to "Holy war" or
"fighting for peace"
Let's cast a retrospective look at half life of some nuclear
elements as if we lived in a past. We can see, in what relation
nuclear elements stand to the history of progress. The half-life of
Americium is 458 years, and to spread this kind of contamination
around the planet will send our civilization back to the age of
Shakespeare. Plutonium contamination will poison our earth for
24,400 years, which sends us back to the age of mammoths.
Neptunium-237 has an extraordinarily long half-life of two million
years, and we are back to being monkeys again
In contrast the half-life of useful service for a politician can be
measured in mere months, and most can not see any problem that
exists beyond the length of this period. Let me drive home one more
example to explain how small and miserable are the ambitions of our
politicians: If the Romans had invented nuclear power and later
someone would bomb their reactors, this land would still contain
traces of radioactivity and we would still, 2000 years later, have
armed militias guarding their dumps of high-level nuclear waste.
March, 2007
On an optimistic note
This days, I work on translating materials from my websites in
European languages. Translation work began in December 2006, and by
April 2007 more than 800 pages had been translated. This is
important, because Chernobyl is never healed wound, real "Achilles'
heel" of nuclear monster. I am sure, our efforts won't be wasted.
In regards to nuclear accidents, whenever any grievous error
appears, gains notoriety and receives applause at the hands of
officials, we should not despair but rather simply realize that they
make a living out of the Nuclear Industry. Why would they ever want
the full truth known? Public knowledge and acceptance of the truth
would mean no jobs for them. They and their nuclear military complex
have strong connections with politicians, they own the media, and
they have all money in the world, because it is taxpayers money that
the politicians pour into nuclear industry. With such depth of means
they can withstand the likes of two or even three "Chernobyl like"
events in a present, but they can not annihilate the past. It's just
impossible. They will lose and we will win, because on our side is
the unfailing tendency of time to correct knowledge and judgment.
The past has reason on its side. If that reason is not admitted, it
will return to demand it. The past is of its essence a revenant. If
put out, it comes back and haunts, inevitably and the only way to
separate from it is not to put it out, but to accept its existence
and to live with it.
Reaching right judgment can be a long lasting process. It usually
takes several generations for the general population to recognize of
its own accord truths which those with clear vision detected at the
first glance. How long this will take with Chernobyl, depends on us
- people who already know the real state of things and are ready to
inform the others. The length of this period is also depends upon
the difficulty of the subject and all around radiation is
deliberately made confusing, but in Chernobyl facts themselves are
eloquent of a truth. No one can keep accidents of such magnitude
concealed from public forever, not even almighty nuclear industry.
Government officials will always cover up industrial accidents, but
it is not officials, neither industries who correct knowledge, it is
we- regular people who make history right.
We are at the point that discovery is inevitable. The rules of sham
and deception - emboldened by success and powered by the blind
confidence of the blockheads who promote them will come to an end.
The absurdity of all official reports about Chernobyl reached such a
pitch that at last truth is obvious even to the dullest eye. We may
thus let them go ahead. At this time, the wilder their statements,
the better... and the easier for us to push them around and push
them away.....
April, 2007
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During the cold war, this dangerous period that could have made
Cherny look like a child's sparkler, academic Andrei Sakharov dared
to criticize the Soviet nuclear program. The outcome was
following- arrests, interrogations, public disgrace... Sakharov
believed reactors can be safe, when they were built underground.
Academic Legasov, who dreamt of an “Institute of Safe Technologies”
was made a scapegoat. He was diagnosed with cancer, which he
received in Chernobyl, but the system forced him to leave his life
even sooner, he committed suicide on the day of second anniversary of
Chernobyl.
The press branded Dr Gordon Mac Lead a scaremonger after he proved
that the accident at Three-Mile Island brought an increase in infant
mortality.
Take any country, any time, and you will see that the story is the
same ; whether we talk about Didier Anger arrested in France for
organizing nuclear protest actions, in the 60-ties, or Youri
Bandazhevsky, from Belorus, who studied genetic mutations in
Chernobyl and was sentenced for 5 years in prison, after his
findings were published in 1996. Whether we have the murder of
Karen Silkwood in USA or the murder of Hilda Murrell, an expert of
nuclear waste in UK... the story is always the same. Only the time
and place are different.
Still, I wish someone would attempt a study of the tragic history of
all those who, before and since, have proclaimed to the world the
dangers of nuclear power. I should have condemned the shabby way in
which these scientists and researchers, who form the proudest
possession of the various nations, were being treated. Such a
history would tell of the martyrdom of almost all those who didn't
want to adjust themselves to half-truth, but being driven by
instinct to the needs of our common self-preservation wanted to find
the whole truth, who did an invaluable service to humanity, and who
applied all their talents and strength to warning people about
nuclear danger they faced.
Such a history would show us how they were tormented to death and
jailed, how they worked without recognition, without sympathy,
without followers, how they were losing their jobs and lived in
poverty, misery and fear, whilst honor, money and security were
stolen by the unworthy. We would learn of how they were sneaking
through the checkpoints, to bring out photos and reveal reality, how
they investigated what truth really is and not what suits the mighty
industrial/military complex. Mostly, how they worked without any
chance to get their researches ever published. Their fate was like
that of Esau who, while he was hunting and getting venison for his
father, was robbed of the blessing by Jacob.. , Those people are
lighthouses of humanity; and without them mankind would lose itself
in atomic smoke and the boundless sea of monstrous errors. They are
the salt of the earth, fruits of that tree, which Jesus said will be
cut down and put in fire when it does not give a good fruit.
The work of every such person as it were, a sacred object of his or
her life, and their aim in storing it away for unlucky posterity,
who after they will inherit the wasted land with piles of
radioactive garbage won't be interested in anything, other than
knowing - how did this happen and how it began.
April, 2007
Unlucky posterity
To understand why posterity will be so unlucky as to be forcefully
purified of the dross of civilization, let's foreshadow a course
along which our present movement is taking us. The story of our
civilization is a story of swineherd, who has wasted his father's
possessions with pigs of this world, who has adulterated his
father's inheritance with evil beasts and corporative monsters. The
future of our civilization is as predictable as the life of an
alcoholic, who is not led by free will, but instead is being dragged
by the chains of needs and necessity.
Up to 1980s, we may be compared, in respect of the way in which we
used resources- our vital energy, to people who lived on the
interest of their money: what they spend to-day, they have again
to-morrow. But from the 1980s onwards, our position is like that of
the investor who begins to entrench upon their capital. We reached
100 per cent of using nature's yearly output.
At first we hardly notice any difference at all, as the greater part
of our expenses are covered by the interest (renewability) of
nature's securities; and if the deficit is only slight, we pay no
attention to it. But when the deficit goes on increasing, our
natural wealth - like polar ice caps and glaciers - begins to melt
away. The pace is picking up exponentially, but the vast majority of
people have not awakened to the fact that it is becoming more
serious every day.
As the drunken party continues, our position becomes less and less
secure. Already we feel ourselves growing poorer and poorer, while
we still can not foresee that this drain upon our resources must
soon come to a disastrous end. No one dares to stop the party, even
though our fall from wealth to poverty becomes faster every moment -
like the fall of a solid body in space - until at last we have
absolutely nothing left. Once this party is over, all that remains
is a wasted land and a huge social hangover.
Our unlucky posterity who will inherit such land will most probably
de-volve into hunter-gatherers. They will live in separated
communities, in cruel hardship. They will have to struggle and
adjust to new reality of scarcity. In many ways they will be like
the last survivors who still live in Chernobyl. They are unlucky and
- as all unlucky people - have only good philosophy as substitute
for the good life lost.
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This spring the market spawned a Chernobyl-like computer game called
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: (Shadow of Chernobyl) This is a popular game and it
received good deal of publicity through debate over the wisdom of
turning a scene of misery into a computer game. I myself do not have
opinion about the game, but I do have high anxiety about the
systematic way in which our science, business and political systems
seek to: (1) keep us in this simplified, thoroughly artificial,
suitably constructed and suitably falsified world of video games,
and (2) deny all consequences of failure and human misery.
What they like to strive for with all their powers is universal
happiness of the herd that can find enjoyment of life only in
aspiration for falsifying it's image, with security, lack of danger,
comfort and easier life for everyone. Millions are now chasing
Chernobyl monsters, on their computers, without any idea that there
is a real monster behind this scenery and this monster may begin to
chase everyone, any time, in real life.
May, 2007
The Atomic Middle Ages
In May 2007 I put up my book "The Atomic Middle Ages". Title of the
book derives from my strong conviction that we are living in a time
similar to Middle Ages in Europe. After the barbarians conquered
Rome, several centuries just disappeared from the human calendar.
The church became the highest authority, creativity was suppressed,
and peoples minds were poisoned with drinks and religion.
Being under the iron dictates of corporations as it is today, Europe
now is flooded by migrant aliens and the peoples minds are being
poisoned by all sorts of new "narcotics"- ideological, religious and
biochemical.
I truly believe that in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought
of as including our own- The Atomic Middle Ages and historical
significance of Chernobyl is that sarcophagus represents the first
tombstone of this epoch. It will remain radioactive for at least
100,000 years and will definitely outlive all other signs of our
time.
Of course, most people do not share this idea because they believe
themselves to be living in progressive times. But seven hundred
years ago no one who lived in what we now call the Middle Ages
thought of themselves as living in it. In the Middle Ages, people
thought they were living in modern times and believed in a human
progress, just as people do today.
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Nuclear Globalism
Today, more and more countries of the world are beginning to build
nuclear reactors, abandoning plans to phase out old nuclear plants
or open discussions on construction of new ones. The Atomic
Renaissance leaves no doubts that both the western and eastern
civilized worlds are entering a new "Dark Age" with "faith-based
thinking" depending upon mindless, violent, dark propaganda and
unreasonable belief systems.
We appear to be moving away from reason-based critical thinking,
hard work, and creative innovation - moving instead toward an
ultra-selfish, do-nothing, mindless consumerism with our leaders
being controlled by powerful greed-motivated corporatism. We are
rapidly moving toward a false kind of democracy that is really
corporate-controlled, militaristic fascism. This process is global.
They build nuclear reactors as if by command. Atomic power is
invading our planet as easily as Hitler invaded Europe, meeting
little resistance now and then. That is a good illustration of what
globalization is, in reality. The globalization of cultures, in
which different races and nations mix and mingle together is another
sign of New Middle Ages.
Do not allow the corporate media to lead you astray and make believe
that globalization will enrich nations inwardly. Being based only on
economic interests, globalization can only bring dividends to
corporations, this makes it easier for them to penetrate markets and
establish corrupt consortiums; at the start they can elevate some
economies, but for the life of societies and their culture, it is
diminution and in the long run will be a disaster for economies too.
For cultures, globalization is like "Round Up" for plants, it kills
almost everything, leaving only one type - “Round Up” ready, wooden
headed consumers, who have no special standing or mark to
distinguish them. They are like mass manufactured goods - all alike,
deprived of the ability to think and judge - barbarians! The
barbarians of the digital age, whose agenda it is, to watch TV, play
computers, worship sports players and revere movie stars.
Globalization divides inner poverty in the same degree in which it
distributes outer riches. If people are passive, like now, then
globalization will bring us down, it will make us mediocre and will
lower social and moral values, vulgarity will be spread all over,
for it is easy to be cheap and adopting each other’s shortcomings is
much easier than adopting merits.
While Nature sets a very wide difference between races and the
nations, globalization disregards and effaces them. As mixed up
colors lose their brightness, so is a mutual integration compels us,
for the sake of harmony, to shrivel up, or even alter our shape
altogether. This demands an act of severe self-denial; it robs us of
national identity as each ethnic group or the nation has to forfeit
five-sixths of their own selves in order to be like the others.
I will go further and say that globalization necessarily involves as
the first condition of its existence, mutual accommodation and
restraint upon the part of its members. This means that the larger
the conglomerate and the more nations involved, the more insipid
will be its tone and the lower its values. In the end nations which
have become inwardly poor come to be poor outwardly and the whole
lot just collapses, like the former Soviet Union.
I call our time "The Atomic Middle Ages" because many of its
portents are reminiscent of the beginning of the first Middle Ages.
The process of the collapse of states is transpiring parallel to an
universalistic uniting. There have began the processes of drawing
back and consolidation, similar to the processes of drawing back and
consolidation during the time of the emperor Diocletian, and of
those who succeeded him.
In my part of the world I clearly see the beginning of a new
feudalization. The multitude of break-away republics, for two
decades living without any monetary system or any other attributes
of a state, are lead by ambitious feudal lords. Each of these
aspires to ascend to the position of a nuclear baron.
Today there are enormous transmigrations and displacements of
mankind’s masses. There ensues a new chaos among all peoples. As
barbarism advances, rapidly gaining ground everywhere, the number of
real professionals and conscientious specialists is constantly
decreasing. The question I want to ask is 'Who will guard the high
level waste and who will care for atomic facilities when automated
systems break down and politics get out of hand?'
If this process continues at the present rate, then soon there will
be no specialists, only a swirling mass of near-savages who occupy
both civil service positions and high tech installations. What
awaits us is a new barbarism, but it won't be a barbarism amidst
forests and fields as in Rome, this will be a barbarism amidst a
neo-hell of war machines and nuclear reactors.
Spiritual culture these days, like in the Middle Ages, is
experiencing its catacombs period. Today it lives not upon the pages
of papers and magazines, nor within the halls of universities or
churches. The true spiritual culture of our time has been driven
underground and now lives in the virtual caves, passages, and
labyrinths of internet sites.
My book sprang from these catacombs where it reflects the color of
our gathering social twilight. It is not a downer and neither does
it seek to blame. Rather I intend it to be sown as the seeds of a
wildflower among the tares of technology.
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Officially, the Atomic Middle Ages began on May 7, 1945, with the
first USA atomic trial called Trinity. Since then, obtaining nuclear
weapons has become a priority of many countries. Because we live in
the world where states having as much rights as they have power,
civilian nuclear programmes have always been under the special
protections of their government military complex. No one cares that
each nuclear power station has cost millions of dollars, pounds or
rubbles more than was estimated, that they have all taken years
longer to build. It is even ignored that, at the end of it all, they
have only produced a modest proportion of the total electricity
required by their host countries. Naturally the politicians and
military would disregard all this. Such technical failures are not
at issue, after all, the atomic power industry is not about
electricity, it is about power.
Atomic Renaissance
From my recent local papers: "Europe is poised to begin a new
nuclear age, reversing two decades of policies aimed at abandoning
nuclear power as an energy source following the Chernobyl disaster
in 1986... Finland is building biggest nuclear plant, it will open
in 2010. Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands have either abandoned
plans to phase out old nuclear plants or opened discussions on
construction of new ones. Switzerland has lifted a moratorium on new
plants. Poland agreed in February to help build a plant in
Lithuania.. Belarus starts construction next year on a nuclear plant
that would begin generating power in 2014. Russia has started
rebuilding old nuclear submarines and other nuclear warships as
floating atomic plants, etc"
It is clear that the 20-year nuclear lull sparked by the Chernobyl
disaster is coming to an end. Driving the turnaround: high oil and
natural gas prices plus concern about poor reliability of fossil
fuel supplies from Russia.
But most of all is concern about global warming, which is like a
global Chernobyl in slow motion - a meltdown where the pace is
picking up gradually as the polar ice caps and glaciers melt. The
idea to cool off the earth with nuclear reactors is put forward by
some who say the atomic reactors could be a good substitute to
fossil fuel, because they do make a only minimum contribution to the
forces of global warming. Others say, it's not good idea, because
building more reactors can lead only to meltdown in fast forward.
Alternative solutions such as wind and solar power still are not
popular because they generate little money and even less political
power. Meanwhile we absolutely have precious little time left to
objectively look into clean and natural wind and solar options. If
in the very near future alternate solution will not be developed,
then we'll only have a choice between increased usage of atomic
power and fossil fuels... life will present, in fact, a more or less
violent oscillation between those two extremes, as to between two
ways, one of which leads to Chernobyl and the other to Atlantis.
To the degree in which we will be fortunate to get away from the
one, the closer we'll approach the other. After nuclear disasters,
when terrors of radiation come to outweigh all other terrors - pain
becomes only one standard by which we regulate our actions - so we
will close the atomic plants; but once the nuclear pain is relieved
then once again the hurricanes and floods will look more real
threat. Over time we'll seek to open the nuclear plants anew. If a
healthy solution won't be found, then we'll move around within this
vicious circle until at last we all end up in a radioactive swamp.
It is time for people to wake up and rid of that carefree attitude,
time to realise that this serene and unclouded life of 1990s is no
longer with us, it is a paradise which we have gambled away; today,
the interest of mankind in staying alive overrides the life interest
of nature; the conflict is growing and it is really time to
understand that if we continue to force nature, then our victory
will be just a brief hour, riches of a minute; No more. For nature
will return very soon, and will teach us, in a rough and ready way
that we really possess nothing at all, but that everything in the
world is at its command. It will claim an unassailable right with
double and treble force, for new territories, for our houses and
businesses, for all we posses or acquire and then, when it will be
too late, finally everyone will come to understand that we all have
been governed by deception and lived by false standards and that the
only way for humans to survive is to live in harmony with nature,
not in confrontation as universally adopted positive philosophy
teach us. The failure to recognize this truth - a failure promoted
by optimistic ideas - is the source for all our troubles.
July, 2007
[Footnote 1: Positive philosophy (positivism) is the philosophical
doctrine of science, which teaches that it is best to emphasize the
positive and not the disappointments which are an occasional part of
life; that the world is meant to be conquered; that the only ones
who fail to attain are those who are not clever enough to overcome
the difficulties that lie in their way... In contrast, the
Upanishads (a class of Vedic treatises dealing with broad
philosophic problems) and the Bible all teach that grief is the only
promise that life keeps and sorrow is the only thing that humans
really possess...
Capitalism and socialism entirely alike were infected by this
spirit. The main doctrine of communists, called "dialectical
materialism," was a form of positivism, in which a pattern of change
in the history of enlightened socialist society consisted of
irreversible changes in one direction only and that direction was
towards improvement. According this doctrine, accidents similar to
Chernobyl couldn't happen; it was just impossible. But then, when it
actually did happen this philosophy collapsed, bringing the Soviet
Union down with it. Chernobyl has undermined the very foundation of
Soviet ideology. The system couldn't react, because the positivism
was not the same scientifically-minded, reason-based critical
positivism as it was at the beginning of 20th century, at that point
doctrine had degraded into clumsy and mindless ideology of a party.
Even though they never admitted the catastrophe, the system of
dialectical materialism couldn't any longer exist. I hoped that
Chernobyl would be the last nail knocked in the coffin of soviet
positivism, but it was not the case. Phantoms not dying, so is
dialectical materialism this days is being converted in a new form
of corporative positivism. Like hurricane after it hits peninsula is
often dissipated, so is illusion when it meets reality problems for
a while is disfigured and deformed, but in a manner of hurricane,
phantom passes over and after a while it gathers new strength and so
it travel continues.. .]
July, 2007
Interview to "Wirtschaftswetter" online magazine
Questions for Elena:
Elena - where have you been on April 26, 1986? What happened to you
and your family on that day?
This day was not different from the others, we played on the
streets, we had south wind, so radiation was not high in Kiev. When
levels start picking up my father sent me and my sister away, he put
us in a train with no tickets. Panic had already begun, so train was
full of children. My father says those days the levels of radiation
in Kiev was over 1 milliroentgen per hour on eye level and 20-50
milliroentgen on the ground.
Now days such a high levels can only be found in radioactive burials
in Chernobyl.
Most Kievers escaped and stayed at their relatives till the middle
of May 1986, then schools, colleges, factories and other facilities
started demanding employees and students back, so we had no choice other than to return to radioactive Kiev.
Where are the people of Tchernobyl today?
People were relocated and now live in the different cities and towns
of Ukraine - most in Kiev. Resettling was very painful for them.
It's like transplantation of a limb or replanting of the tree, which
often fail to take root at new place, especially if environment is
different.
Most Chernobyl evacuees lived in rural areas and here we have very
big difference between life in cities and that in villages. Let me
drive a few parallels to explain the problems.
Language - in cities people speak Russian, in villages Ukrainian.
This is a major barrier.
Tempo - in villages life is static, in cities dynamic.
World view - in villages derives from nature-knowledge, it is
organic, while in cities it is determined by engineering, art,
tending to be mechanical and pragmatic.
Attitude - In villages attitude is telluric or organic, it derives
from and is entwined with a cult of ancestors and is impossible
without sacred traditions. Life in the city on the other hand is
pro-civilization; it is a will to wield worldwide might, beginning
with massive re-ordering of the surface of the earth itself. A city
is international by nature, while a village is sub-national.
But what affected the villagers most deeply was the spiritual
deprivation after their relocation. Life in villages religious by
nature and by this it is distinct from life in cities, which is
irreligious. A country soul is one whose gentle ways were influenced
by the Christian period of history. It shines through everything
with the rays of the Christian sun. In the city these rays have long
been quenched by the lurid practices of godless civilization.
By this reason many of Chernobyl evacuees have died from drinking,
homesickness and despair, while others returned to their homes and
died from radiation. Those of them who were young and strong settled
in different places and now live with us.
What will happen with the reactor in the future? It's will never be
safe, won't it?
I can not predict what will happen to the reactor. There were few
attempts to start building new sarcophaguses, but all failed. All I
know is that as long as political and economic situation in Ukraine
remains unstable no one will invest in this multi billion dollars
project.
People say it's much safer now to travel through the 'zone' of
Tchernobyl. Is this true? What about radioactivity in the soil? Will
people ever be able to live there again?
Travelling is much safer now, but living is still not safe. Nature
shall heal the land and I hope some day people will live in some
places again.
Elena – on your website you publish lots of photos, information,
diary entries and thoughts of yours. What is it you are looking for?
What makes you go back again and again?
I am sure there are many people around the world who would do this
work, but not all have money to travel here and not all speak
language and know how to get permission for visiting Chernobyl or
how to bypass checkpoints. I know this, because I am a native.
Chernobyl is by my side and carrying this work is easier for me than
for people who live far away. Chernobyl is also a part of my life and
I feel like I have a certain obligation to tell about it.
Some day I hope to fix my motorcycle and continue my story.
What do you think when you cross the imaginary border into the Land
of the Wolves?
The imaginary border into the Land of the Wolves for me the bridge
some 60 kms on west from reactor. There is dead village Bobyor
(Beaver) which was located along the bank of the river. This place
is very beautiful and standing on this bridge I always feel like I
lose some sense of reality, which is really a loss of the presence
of Time.
Normally humans feel like time stands still in Chernobyl. It's
because Time is that in which all things pass away yet in Chernobyl
nothing changes. In human life some ten or fifteen years is always a
significant amount of time, something always goes on, while in
Chernobyl nothing passes away for the same period, thus it feels
like I stand on some bridge to infinity and I stand there for
thousand years seeing the same picture, thinking the same thought
about vanity of our existence and fleetingness of human age, which
is just a brief moment in the decay of isotopes as they slowly,
imperceptibly, flare from one element into another.
I feel on this bridge, like I am between two worlds. One that I am
leaving behind is ours- the world of civilization, where eternal
restlessness, turmoil's and the fleeting passing of each present
moment is the only mode of human existence; where Chernobyl
forgotten because most people are nothing but an embodiment of
present impulses, and for them that which has been exists no more.
When I cross the imaginary border I think that the world I am
leaving is a purely physical, while one I am about to enter is a
metaphysical; where roads without pedestrians, counters without shop
keepers and churches with no priests; because it neither heaven of
God, nor is it the kingdom of Caesar, it is now realm of a Pluto,
where all - past, present and the future flow together and exists in
one mode.
I also think about life that once boiled in Chernobyl, - about
ordinary human life, where some people build careers, others fight
windmills. Life where some dig storm cellars, while others erect air
castles. Life where some sow seeds they never see sprout, others
reap a harvest they did not sow... Now, all their strivings,
achievements and passions are just a pale shadow on the wall.
Do you believe that people will still talk about Tchernobyl in 10 or
20 years?
People can not forget about Chernobyl completely. Because it is such
a huge territory, poisoned with radiation, it will always be there
and will always remind of itself.
Are you against nuclear technology?
Nuclear technology posits a death sentence for the world; it is very
dangerous in human hands.
What would you like to say to the children, born over the last 15
years? And what to their parents?
Do not feel forsaken, the world is grieving for you.
Do not stare over-long into the Abyss of your misfortune for, as
Nietzsche said, if you look for long into the Abyss, the Abyss will
look into you.
The meaning of this is that you going to limit yourself with
thinking about infinite things, such as time, the universe, and
human stupidity.
Elena, are you still an optimist?
I am a cheerful pessimist.
Astrid Wehling/Wirtschaftswetter/October 2007
[Footnote 2: Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil" Epigrams
and Interludes, 146: Whoever fight monsters should see to it that in
the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long
into an abyss, the abyss also look into you.]
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