Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Doomsday on the Near Horizon

Mushroom cloud from nuclear explosion

Doom: transitive verb: to fix the fate of Destiny.

Doom is what is predicted to be the final outcome

of civilization, of humanity, of the fate of the Earth

as we know it. The sinister playthings of tyrants

and dictators have evolved from rude mechanics

of destruction to the ultimate which science and

technology made possible when science followed

nature's blueprint for atomic existence in the 

formation of the universe to the potential of 

extracting excited particle friction in the ultimate

display of violent power capable of extinguishing life. 

Nuclear power now so commonplace in the banal

production of energy to fuel and empower social

civilization, yet capable of conversion to a threat of

extinction as powerfully cynical abusers of both nature

and the gift of existence toy with subtle innuendo of

conventional warfare submitting to nuclear war.

 

 


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