Sunday, April 16, 2023

Perilous Chaos of Existential Threats

Test launch of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Hwasong-18

The primitive brain knows the stratagem

that nature engineered into the DNA of

her creatures and so the frail vulnerable of

her creatures are small, instinct instructing them

to a discreet presence in contrast to the brash

largely aggressive creatures as born predators.

The human race with its superior comprehension

knows that in animal confrontations the object

is to signal an antagonist creature the advantage

of size, so a bear stands upright and bellows.

Humankind too acknowledges size; the larger

the explosive device the more threat it is of

maximum damage. Antagonistic nations develop

weapons of massive destruction as deterrence

then conduct 'tests' whose performance acts as

that bellowing bear. Responding antagonists run

war games deploying unified weapons of war to

counter the initiator whose neurosis of paranoia 

demands ever more advanced weapons in a theatre

of mass psychosis, the endless cycle of threat and

response that will erupt into perilous chaos. 



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