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Yeah I think Miller was using the nuclear holocaust as a vehicle to reflect on original sin (i.e., the inevitable tendency of human beings to engage in self-des
by bslorence 4y ago
Yeah I think Miller was using the nuclear holocaust as a vehicle to reflect on original sin (i.e., the inevitable tendency of human beings to engage in self-destructive behavior) and the antidote to it offered by the Catholic Church. If he had written the novel today it probably would have been something other than MAD that nearly wiped out civilization twice.
- tablespoon 4y ago> If he had written the novel today it probably would have been something other than MAD that nearly wiped out civilization twice. Maybe last year, but we're back to nuclear sabre-rattling and great-power conflict now.