In 1970 Nobel prize winner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi published a book aimed at younger readers entitled “The Crazy Ape.” Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi, a biologist, was rather pessimistic about the future of the planet and the U.S.
American society is death-oriented. If you watch and if you read the newspapers, a great part of it is taken up by war, by killing, by murder, atomic bombs, MIRVs, gases, bacterial agents, napalm, defoliants asphyxiating agents and we have war. All our ideas are death-oriented.
You may need a refresher here. M.I.R.V. is a multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicle, i.e., a missile that has numerous warheads for many targets. Defoliants are used to kill vegetation. The one you may have heard of is Agent Orange, used in Vietnam, and still killing Vietnam vets.
Dr. Szent-Györgyi died in 1986. This was before social media. widespread belief in conspiracy theories, and a reluctance to accept scientific reasoning. Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi thought what might save us was the “youth.” Yeah, that might work.
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