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So I was finding some scary stuff to read for October and was recommended these books by Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario and Biological War: A Scenario. As the title suggests, they're not truly fiction, more just a description of scenarios.
The nuclear war one started out well. It even talked about the meeting held in 1960 where the US government was casually planning how to first-strike the USSR and kill like 600 million people. So I was disappointed when I read a little further and the scenario (taking place in 2024 at the time of the book's writing) involved North Korea just throwing a nuke at DC and California for literally no reason??? And then we get this crap which I suppose is supposed to justify this preposterous premise:
Basically every offensive North Korea evil trope rolled into one. A quick ctrl+F through the rest of the book reveals all sorts of other whacky shit:
Um this is a new one lol. Reminds me of that person on tumblr who claimed Mao made his wife "piss for days". Seriously though how do you actually publish this in a book you wrote without getting embarrassed???
You heard it here first guys, Kim Jong-Un keeps a pocket-sized tunneling machine on his person at all times to Bugs Bunny himself to safety.
Speaking of boring, I will not be finishing this book lol. It's pretty dull beyond the genuinely scary details of nuclear detonations with far too much tedious information that reads like a boring wikipedia entry. Curiously, all the stuff about the tech and nuclear policy is rigorously sourced, sometimes with interviews even, but the North Korea Bad shit is just from the usual suspects: NBC, AP, ""dissidents"", etc. The biological war one features pneumonic plague with Russia being the culprit (the evil soviets invented it in this scenario, obviously). Weird coincidence that I picked it up the day before the news broke about the case in Russia...
So now I moved on to The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney and have been having a great time lol. Anybody have any scary reading suggestions for this month?
Its funny how Scientists can insist on solid evidence and make sure to highlight every possible margin of error in their field but when it comes to political economy and history they are more than willing to just accept wild irrational beliefs.
Like if someone in their field publishes a paper that has a premise that aligns with their own research they will pick it apart with a fine toothed comb, but if a propaganda outlet says that "bad country" is doing something irrational without cause, they will just go right along with it. They'll even say "that's insane I can't believe anyone would do that" and yet they will just believe that it is happening.
Nah, it also happens in psychology and theoretical physics.
Someone can propose the Bicameral Mind hypothesis^[the idea that consciousness is actually cultural and humans were literally incapable of introspection before 3000 AD] or the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics^[idea that every quantum wave collapse actually generates an entire (or partial) new parallel Universe] and not be laughed out of the room.
Psychologists are the one profession where you need shit nothing other than morals and ethics forged by bourgeois ideas. Not to say they don't offer anything or that all is bullshit, but most of it is made to rehabilitate workers to continue doing their labor for society, and most psychologists will follow an idealistic world view and even push religious insanity to their patients. Psychiatrists on the other hand are actually trying to follow a scientific world view approach for sadly the same end goal, but they are much less tolerant towards idealistic world views and religious fanaticism. That ofc is my experience with these practitioners and Doctors plus my research on the topic
It's like people's brains turn off at any mention of North Korea.
Yeah. It's textbook Pavlovian conditioning.