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It goes back to at least the 50s, Japan had a thing for giant mutant monsters resulting from the bombs, Godzilla and all that fun stuff. I have never encountere

It goes back to at least the 50s, Japan had a thing for giant mutant monsters resulting from the bombs, Godzilla and all that fun stuff. I have never encountered anyone using mutants as a talking point for an anti-nuclear agenda.

nottorp 3y ago
And then it devolved into Hollywood genetics. You know, when something rewrites your genetic code and as a result you grow an extra head in a 30 second scene.
jansan 3y ago
There was quite a popular Austrian band who had some political songs, and one was about a man living near a nuclear power plant. Due do an accident at the power plant their son had six ears, mushrooms on the head, glowed in the dark, etc. That is the only example that I can come up with right now, but I have heard risk of mutations mentioned as a result of nuclear energy over and over again. Here is the song (German): https://www.verunsicherung.de/diskografie/songs/burli.html https://www.verunsicherung.de/diskografie/songs/burli.html
- ofalkaed 3y ago
  That is absurdism, a way to make the topic more suitable as entertainment. They are not being literal.
  - jansan 3y ago
    Fair enough, but how about "documentaries" like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQLsDrs-74&t=9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQLsDrs-74&t=9s I am not willing to spend a lot of thime on this, but from first glance I can see that they are misusing a mutant deer from Georgia/US (1:10 into the video) for their narrative. Who knows if any of the images there are actually from Chernobyl. And that video has 2.6 million views.
    - ofalkaed 3y ago
      The images at the start are meant to shock and contrast the truths that they go on to explore, context is import. The rest of that video goes on to talk about how wildlife is now thriving in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, that the mutations can only be seen on the genetic level and that those mutations are part of what is allowing wildlife to thrive there. They are not using mutation as anti-nuclear propaganda, they are exploring much larger and more nuanced topics. You really should have watched the video before posting instead of just finding some propaganda to repeat. I have no doubt you can find an example which will "prove" you right, but it will take you a fair amount of digging most likely and is about as common those heavily mutated births caused by radiation exposure.

nottorp 3y ago

And then it devolved into Hollywood genetics. You know, when something rewrites your genetic code and as a result you grow an extra head in a 30 second scene.

jansan 3y ago

There was quite a popular Austrian band who had some political songs, and one was about a man living near a nuclear power plant. Due do an accident at the power plant their son had six ears, mushrooms on the head, glowed in the dark, etc. That is the only example that I can come up with right now, but I have heard risk of mutations mentioned as a result of nuclear energy over and over again. Here is the song (German): https://www.verunsicherung.de/diskografie/songs/burli.html https://www.verunsicherung.de/diskografie/songs/burli.html

ofalkaed 3y ago
That is absurdism, a way to make the topic more suitable as entertainment. They are not being literal.
- jansan 3y ago
  Fair enough, but how about "documentaries" like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQLsDrs-74&t=9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQLsDrs-74&t=9s I am not willing to spend a lot of thime on this, but from first glance I can see that they are misusing a mutant deer from Georgia/US (1:10 into the video) for their narrative. Who knows if any of the images there are actually from Chernobyl. And that video has 2.6 million views.
  - ofalkaed 3y ago
    The images at the start are meant to shock and contrast the truths that they go on to explore, context is import. The rest of that video goes on to talk about how wildlife is now thriving in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, that the mutations can only be seen on the genetic level and that those mutations are part of what is allowing wildlife to thrive there. They are not using mutation as anti-nuclear propaganda, they are exploring much larger and more nuanced topics. You really should have watched the video before posting instead of just finding some propaganda to repeat. I have no doubt you can find an example which will "prove" you right, but it will take you a fair amount of digging most likely and is about as common those heavily mutated births caused by radiation exposure.