{"id":13754,"date":"2023-07-20T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=13754"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:53:09","slug":"820-nuclear-considerations-about-war-and-peace-salim-mansur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13754","title":{"rendered":"820 &#8211; Nuclear considerations\u2014about war and peace | Salim Mansur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/820-BurningTheirDraftCards-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13755\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20230720-justRIGHT-820-GUEST-SalimMansur-NUCLEARconsiderations-AboutWARandPEACE.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><br \/>\nIn his assessment of what has caused the West to morally degrade into a self-inflicted state of nihilism, our guest <strong>Salim Mansur cites two different \u201cnuclear\u201d developments, one concerning nuclear weapons, the other concerning the nuclear family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevelopments\u201d occur over time, and require both hindsight and foresight to be seen.  This demands <strong>an understanding of history combined with philosophy<\/strong>, two disciplines that have been abandoned in the vacuum of today\u2019s WOKE culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disinterest in history is a symptom of a nihilistic society, explains Salim.<\/strong>  As the West sits on the precipice of nuclear war, the question arises which of the two \u201cnuclear\u201d concerns is the greater \u2013 the explosion of a nuclear bomb, or the implosion of the nuclear family.  As we learn, these two themes are very intertwined, representing both a consequence and a cause behind <strong>our culture of narcissism \u2013 a \u201cdeath culture.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most significantly, <strong>unlike America\u2019s opposition to the Vietnam war during a time when America imposed conscription, opposition to war in 2023 in relative terms does not exist<\/strong> (thanks to the fact that Richard Nixon ended the draft during his presidency). This would suggest that the so-called \u201cprotesters against war\u201d were less against war itself than they were against being forced to participate in war.<\/p>\n<p>As the popular 60s-era war protest song \u201cWhere have all the flowers gone?\u201d lamented, it sadly appears that it may yet be some time off before the answer to that question is understood in a way that is Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/820-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/820-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his assessment of what has caused the West to morally degrade into a self-inflicted state of nihilism, our guest Salim Mansur cites two different \u201cnuclear\u201d developments, one concerning nuclear weapons, the other concerning the nuclear family. \u201cDevelopments\u201d occur over time, and require both hindsight and foresight to be seen. This demands an understanding of <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13754' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-culture-society","category-latest","category-politics","issues-nuclear-weapons","issues-protest","issues-ukraine-conflict","issues-war-and-peace","guests-salim-mansur","category-12-id","category-62-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13759,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754\/revisions\/13759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}