sophical internalisation but these damn
words damn him as they threaten to damn
us: “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you
argue about what to do about it only after
you have had your technical success. That
is the way it was with the atom bomb.”
Oppenheimer explained a “few people
cried, few people laughed, most being
silent” on witnessing the trinity explosion.26
“How much better is it to weep at joy
than to joy at weeping”
~ William Shakespeare
and friends, perceived enemies, nations
with their walls of enmity and boundaries of
hate, inspired thoughts of past, present and
future states, in our defining natural environment, and the very condition the ecology
of a human Self- soul- self- brain-mind, and
consciousness, gone in a ‘blazing instant’.
We have cut, split, divided, severed, sheared,
separated, defined, detailed, and detonated
our way to the atom, and then, assailed that
too. America, using the information with all
the care of a spoilt adolescent. Like showing
a child how to strike a match then leaving
the box within easy reach:
I’ll go ahead and stick this beautifully
crafted sword in your heart and well let’s
see Bill, what just might happen. Oh Yes
“let’s kill Bill” and Jeb? “Jeb’s dead baby,
Jeb’s dead.”
A~ “We know how to do this people”
States of self consciousness of intergrading
quality, bound in cause and effect, have
created a device, Hydrogen bomb,27 so
monstrous that if unleashed, its thermonuclear fires would draw all things morphologically animate and civilisations inanimate
shaping, and the possibility of defining
thingishness in variable ways, to an ignominious end. The end of human self consciousness and its manifestations, purling
laughter, tears of sorrow and of joy, family
A~ “Unfortunate times son, unfortunate
so “shoot, let’s use these suckers
on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, yep,
let these babies blow.”
B~ “That’s unfortunate phrasing sir.”
times.”
B~ “Excuse me sir, do we have a name
for the consequences.”
A~ “Consequences son... consequences!?”
B~ “Is it not genocide sir?”
A~ “Collateral damage son, collateral
damage.”
B~ “That’s more than one word Sir.”
A~ “We have more than one enemy son.”
http://sites.utexas.edu/joshhamptonincyberspace/files/2015/09/
Ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-1.pdf
22
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Begin/Einstein.shtml
23
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/docsworldwar.pdf
24
https://amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/proceedings/Hijiya.pdf
25
that which “upholds” the universe
26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac
27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjnm3V0xYjI
21