{"id":22769,"date":"2011-04-26T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=22769"},"modified":"2011-04-26T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T04:00:22","slug":"chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/04\/26\/chernobyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A feature length documentary on the disaster, the whole thing available at the above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 25th anniversary of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_plant\" target=\"_blank\">Chernobyl<\/a> disaster\u00a0in Pripyat, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Frye refers to it to illustrate a point about primary concern in <em>The Double Vision<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we accept as beautiful or attractive or in accord with the way we want things to be has some connection, however indirect, with the satisfying of these concerns, and what we call ugly or dehumanized&#8211;air choked with pollution, land turned into waste land by speculators, infernos created by technological idiocies from Chernobyl to Exxon Valdez&#8211;with the frustration of them. For a long time the established powers in society looked at their civilization and said, &#8220;Probably much of it is very ugly, but that doesn&#8217;t matter as long as we make profits out of it, and certainly nothing is going to be done about it.&#8221; When it becomes clear that ugly is beginning to mean dangerous as well, however, the point of view may slowly change. (CW 4, 191)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o A feature length documentary on the disaster, the whole thing available at the above link Today is the 25th anniversary of the\u00a0Chernobyl disaster\u00a0in Pripyat, Ukraine. 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