An early work-in-progress dedicated to helping,
circuitously, precipitate the Great Mobilisation
Dare to be wise!
Kant
Contents
author Cimino
work-in-progress published 20250613
When you believe in things
That you don’t understand
Then you suffer
Stevie Wonder, 1972
Mobilisation to Meet Putin’s Genocidal Hypermasculinity: That dictators and tyro dictators can, in the Great 3rd Millennium Polycrisis, wage war at will is a sorry measure of a world so deeply dysfunctional it is unwilling to illegalise bloody national and regional rivalries, to salvage the survivable climate every living thing upon which is dependent. Here, just a few of the Ukrainian servicewomen prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice thanks to the depraved dictatorship of serial plagiarist Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Sadly, the ~250 000 killed to date pale in comparison to the polycrisis lives lost already, and the billions the polycrisis puts at risk. image Irregular Warfare Initiative
After the better part of a lifetime, that its utterance seldom evokes so much as a suppressed guffaw, still surprises Cimino:
It’s bad luck to be superstitious.
Having coined the witticism in his youth, Cimino doesn’t doubt dozens have come up with the wisecrack verbatim, or close-to, since—or before, for that matter. For him it remains one of life’s enduring little mysteries it is not frequently heard, much less that it is not a robust, universal declaration of rationality. Superstition about superstition, he allows, may have played a part. Be that as it may, Cimino steels himself and deliberately assigns the 13 cachet to this chapter, named for the Great Mobilisation itself, and the beyond-urgent imperative for it.
Scientifically, it is indisputable that anthropogenic global heating is increasingly jeopardising a survivable climate. Those of the opinion that that statement is debateable will need to argue their case elsewhere—Chapter 13 , indeed Light the Fuse itself, is about what the Great Mobilisation might look like if it is to make a blind bit of difference as to how the Great 3rd Millennium Polycrisis plays out … which supposes of course history records that, by 2025, too many tipping points had not already been crossed to render any scale of mobilisation moot. Nor is Cimino’s near-future novel, much less this chapter, a place where the litany of suffering that might all to easily await mostdeliberately “most”, as opposed to “much”, for the interim of humanity is examined—that appalling duty is left to other authors to inflict. This book, and chapter in particular, is about the blood, toil, tears and sweat that is the cosmically unique duty and distinction of immediate generations to discharge, to salvage the indescribable beauty and complexity of this patent, potential heaven on Earth.
If China, France, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Israel, the United Kingdom, Russia, and other assorted states were known to all be poised to launch, within the ensuing few days, all their nuclear missiles pre-emptively or in retaliation, following, for example, a great escalation of the war started by Netanyahu and Trump, there can be little doubt that some form of global mobilisation would ensue. If it could be established as a fact that anthropogenic global heating was the equivalent of the first of those missiles having already been stealth-launched, slingshot unerringly towards their most-populous targets, via non-interceptable trajectories around the sun, there is a high probability…
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