To the mis-en-scene, I could only add: the erotism that is behind technological accelerationism.
What I mean is that there is a sort of visceral, cthonic attraction to the idea of creating 'new life', even as the ecosystems that support actual living systems grow frail. Just as Oppenheimer made the bomb in part because he couldn't resist the attraction of solving the intellectual problems inherent in its design, we're poisoning the well not just to do it first, but because we are hot for well-poisoning.
It's such an interesting intellectual problem! Poisons are beautiful.
To the mis-en-scene, I could only add: the erotism that is behind technological accelerationism.
What I mean is that there is a sort of visceral, cthonic attraction to the idea of creating 'new life', even as the ecosystems that support actual living systems grow frail. Just as Oppenheimer made the bomb in part because he couldn't resist the attraction of solving the intellectual problems inherent in its design, we're poisoning the well not just to do it first, but because we are hot for well-poisoning.
It's such an interesting intellectual problem! Poisons are beautiful.