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The Nuclear Bomb Is a Meditative Solution, Right?

In his book, the critique of cynical reason, depuitsi talks about the nuclear bomb as this kind of meditative solution to the problem of ubiquitous cynicism. For depuitsi it reallym it becomes a standing for the sacred, precisely in so far as through the whole notion of nuclear deterrence,. It becomes both the thing that kind of hover hovers over us at all times, right? And so that's very scary, from a batalon porspects, according to bati, that energy is just being weighted to be wasted.

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