In the world we live in, there is lots of talk about "accountability". Taking note of an anniversary is one way of accounting (thanks, P.D.M.). How does one account for a great destructive act of this magnitude? How does a citizen of the bomb-dropping nation stand to account ? Serious questions, poorly phrased.
Good questions about accountability. Best answer I can give is informing ourselves about what our alleged representatives are doing for us. Unfortunately they were not and are not really representing us. We ordinary people have no choice in the selection of these unelected officials and their policies. They cover their tracks with a chloroform of obfuscation about 'national security' or some other widely approved goal, such as public health, diversity, and so on. Once they have secured such approval and are ensconced in positions of power, it's hard to dislodge them. But it is possible; sunlight is the best disinfectant. Documentation and exposure of their doings will gradually corrode their basis of support, and they will lose their grip on power, which ultimately depends on popular consent. This is already happening now with DNI Tulsi Gabbard's exposure of the U.S. Deep-State. As for the atomic bomb anniversary noted in this post, and in the linked essay on Oppenheimer, the best we can do now is correct the historical record. We cannot bring back the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb victims; but we can serve them best by rejecting the mindless notion that the atomic holocaust 'saved lives' and acknowledging frankly that these acts of mass murder were done entirely for postwar geopolitical advantage. And thanks to Oppenheimer and Rosenberg, that nuclear monopoly advantage disappeared in only four years, when in 1949 the Soviet Union acquired equivalent nuclear capability. https://peterdanielmiller.substack.com/p/oppenheimer
In the world we live in, there is lots of talk about "accountability". Taking note of an anniversary is one way of accounting (thanks, P.D.M.). How does one account for a great destructive act of this magnitude? How does a citizen of the bomb-dropping nation stand to account ? Serious questions, poorly phrased.
Good questions about accountability. Best answer I can give is informing ourselves about what our alleged representatives are doing for us. Unfortunately they were not and are not really representing us. We ordinary people have no choice in the selection of these unelected officials and their policies. They cover their tracks with a chloroform of obfuscation about 'national security' or some other widely approved goal, such as public health, diversity, and so on. Once they have secured such approval and are ensconced in positions of power, it's hard to dislodge them. But it is possible; sunlight is the best disinfectant. Documentation and exposure of their doings will gradually corrode their basis of support, and they will lose their grip on power, which ultimately depends on popular consent. This is already happening now with DNI Tulsi Gabbard's exposure of the U.S. Deep-State. As for the atomic bomb anniversary noted in this post, and in the linked essay on Oppenheimer, the best we can do now is correct the historical record. We cannot bring back the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb victims; but we can serve them best by rejecting the mindless notion that the atomic holocaust 'saved lives' and acknowledging frankly that these acts of mass murder were done entirely for postwar geopolitical advantage. And thanks to Oppenheimer and Rosenberg, that nuclear monopoly advantage disappeared in only four years, when in 1949 the Soviet Union acquired equivalent nuclear capability. https://peterdanielmiller.substack.com/p/oppenheimer