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Sunday 11 March 2007


Cold war fears of Nuclear Armageddon, are sold back to those that lived through it as a tourist attraction. The fears were real, but now it's just a day trip for the family, like a visit to Auschwitz. Lest we forget.
Our history has now become our future; an exercise in consumption that bares no relation to the reality of mass murder or mass paranoia.
For sale souvenirs of suffering.

2 comments:

Highlander said...

I remember doing a 'Nuclear Power - No Thanks' calendar showing the old mushroom going up with blackened bodies around it - AT PRIMARY SCHOOL FFS. You're damn right those fears were real.....'When The Wind Blows' had me in tears. Even now I would probably wanna be closer to the epicentre than survive and live with the aftermath.

Nuzz Prowlin' Wolf said...

Spent ages looking for my old Protect and Survive booklet from late 70's/early 80's to use in the post, but cant find it nowhere. Yeah WTWB, what a book. Now it's all about Osama, times change, but the fears remain and help shape our society.