Japan's Nuclear Winter

Sad as it may be,I think this is their new reality.
In as so much not the blotting out the sun,but from the
radiation.

The next step is the survival of the people of Japan.

I came across an interesting study on surviving a nuclear event,
but they discuss nuclear war,not from nuclear reactor meltdown.

It's titled"Nuclear Winter: The Anthropology of Human Survival"

It goes into many scenarios after such an event.

What caught my eye was the possible beginning of a new religion
because of the tragic event.
It discusses how we "fantasize" on how we will survive after some "event".
Especially Americans.
www.fas.org...
Copy Righted Material below...........
If you look at the fantasies of life after nuclear war, they
have a certain number of interesting characteristics. There have
been a good many of them. It’s interesting to notice, of course,
that there is a certain appeal in the notion, particularly for
Americans, of being thrown into a situation that requires individual
heroic ingenuity. That kind of appeals to people. This iS
what they visualize themselves doing. They visualize themselves
acting ingeniously and creatively finding solutions. They visualize
themselves‘-even as death approaches--being loyal to families,
worrying about their children, holding them in their arms--as death
approaches. Sometimes people visualize themselves committing
suicide, as I think a great many people would, with a fidelity to
their basic values and religious ideals intact: a noble stoicism.
“Unto thy hands, I commend my spirit.” “My personhood, my sense of
values is unchanged, even as I imagine myself coming to death or
choosing death in a difficult situation.”
I think we have to ask whether those images are valid images.
I think they are valid images for a short-term period, but I think
we must consider the breakdown, not simply of civilization, but the
breakdown of the mechanisms for the transmission of culture between
generations. This is what we should be concerned about when we
think, at least, about the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere--
I think Prof. Dirks’ picture probably is a very valid one:
a harshening of relationships in various ways in places where
survival might continue to be possible. I don’t think we could
imagine something like that for the northern hemisphere.
Now to examine this--to examine the possibility that those who
survive would survive in a state where they were no longer able to
feel that they exemplified their own values--we have to look at a
great many kinds of available data. Many of us in our teaching use
Theodora Kroeber’s depiction of Ishi.16 That’s an interesting
example. A tiny little group of people who suffered the loss of a
world, although it was a local phenomenon, and remained loyal to
each other and to their values, cared for each other. But of
course, as I look at the Ishi case and the dignity that clearly was
maintained there, the thing that strikes me is that even as the
group became smaller and more isolated and more limited in its
access to resources, the actual environment in which it was functioning
remained intelligible. The individuals have the knowledge
Of how to exploit that environment, even as it became more and more
difficult. This is not what we are talking about for the northern
hemisphere.

Konkokyo is a new religion...

It warned us, the guardian of all metals is in the Northeast...

And it tells us to expect a miracle, if we all work hard enough to make it happen...

@ religion

A portion of that was not mine,it was copied and I f@@k up.
Here is the link
www.fas.org...

reply to post by Chakotay


Thank you,I will study and become familiar with this.

reply to post by spoonbender


Truth comes in music:
New Religion

I think Japan will survive,but if it ever happened here in the US,I think not.