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+====Their politicization and fear of nuclear power is a conscious or unconscious refusal to confront death.==== |
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+**Pahner '76** (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS |
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+One critical factor in determining these unique perceptions of the nuclear power plant is the |
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+the threat of death both as it exists and as it is perceived. |
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+====This fear is symbolic displacement—it's a palliative scapegoat that allows us to transfer our fears of nuclear war onto separate objects.==== |
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+**Pahner '76** (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS |
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+In spite of the dramatic rhetoric, there are several important points raised by Koestler |
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+partly as a displacement of unconscious fears of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. |
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+====Our fear of the chaotic unknown is self-blackmail, internalized securitization. We have encased ourselves in plastic cellophane to prolong our shelf lives, reducing the body to no more than a diseased object to preserve—what value is there in living if we just do so to maximize survival?==== |
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+**Baudrillard 2** ~~Jean, v smaht person, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp. 177-180, Sage Publications~~ CRLS PO |
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+Security is another form of social control, in the form of life blackmailed with |
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+to surround you with a sarcophagus in order to prevent you from dying. |
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+====The alt is to sacrifice the 1AC to endorse symbolic exchange—embrace death as the only way to destroy the system.==== |
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+**Robinson 12** ~~Andrew, "The Rise of Capitalism and Exclusion of Death", 2012, http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2~~ CRLS PO
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+The accidental or violent death gains special significance in western culture as the only kind |
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+self-destruction by refusing to put in any energies from outside it. |