Did a binge of HBO’s Chernobyl mini-series this past weekend.
For the most part it was a true story with a few alterations. But the personalities, the lies, the egos, nationalism, the innocents, the ones just doing their jobs and the old white guys in power … an analogy that wasn’t lost on me.
Like any güd work of fiction worth watching, Chernobyl is just another take on stuff that’s going on RIGHT NOW.
Only today, the United States is the villain. Instead of one nuclear power plant, we have multiple for-profit industries and this Climate Change thing we’re steadfast denying. Censoring. And when we wake up, it’ll be the populations at the far end of the economic scale that’ll pay with their lives first.
Already, actually. Start with FLINT and just work your way thru purple water, our food supply and any community today who isn’t as important as The Large Corporation who see poisoned people as just another way of doing business.
Chernobyl is the same fucking story. Lessons never learned. Fucking cycle. Sometimes I hate being a history teacher. Cause as humans we JUST DON’T learn.
Even the long sequence showing how the Chernobyl pets were killed – cept for the bullets – pretty much the same way our own pets are handled when we just give up and drop them off at a kill shelter.
Yes, watch Chernobyl on HBO, read the book or check out the podcast. All lessons our rulers are totally ignoring today.
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Here’s a short film that appeared in the FLOMM instagram feed yesterday that has similar feels.
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Flommist Steve Mehallo is a graphic designer, illustrator, font designer, educator, foodie and gadfly. He is the creator and founder of FLOMM!
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