Tournament: Yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stuyvesant PY | Judge: Becca Traber
Their politicization and fear of nuclear power is a conscious or unconscious refusal to confront death.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
Baudrillard 2 ~Jean, v smaht person, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp. 177-180, Sage Publications~ CRLS PO
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.
Turns case—repression of death is the root cause of every violent and oppressive dichotomy.
Baudrillard 3 ~Jean, "Symbolic Exchange and Death", pg. 125-126~ CRLS PO
Racism is modern. Previous races or cultures were ignored or eliminated, but never
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serving as their model: the exclusion of the dead and of death.
Robinson 12 ~Andrew, "The Rise of Capitalism and Exclusion of Death", 2012, http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2~~ CRLS PO
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.