Chernobyl - Episode 4 - The Happiness of All Mankind

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🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Hello, comrades! It's time once again to descend into the man-made hell of Chernobyl, now with 100% more puppy-murder! The deep irony of the episode's title, "The Happiness of All Mankind", underscores the misery of the people who were forced to evacuate, the soul and body destroying heroism of the soldiers and engineers doing the work that must be done, as well as the predicament of the people that have to decide between their principles and ethics and disobeying a political structure that can not only take your career and your life from you, but those of your friends and families. As we close the books on the immediate disaster mitigation and clean up, we look forward to what justice we can get for the victims and the world itself as we deal next week with the judicial and political fallout of Chernobyl. We got a lot of informed and professional feedback on the many questions we've been wrestling with on this podcast, but we were provided two documents in particular you might find interesting. First, a paper on how the "Iron Law of Oligarchy" applies even to democratic and open structures such as Wikipedia. Second, a specific example of the tyranny of Wikipedians in the form of a misguided-grammar Nazi. You may also be interested to read an analysis of the relative risks of nuclear power vs coal power from the The Lancetthat I mentioned in the podcast. Support Bald Move: Club Bald Move Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of
0:02.0	Bald New Television. We're the officially unofficial podcast for all of
0:05.2	television. I'm your host Airon and I'm Jim and we are continuing as we have for the
0:09.6	last four weeks to discuss in-depth a singular episode of television in this case the
0:15.9	HBO document well not documentary historical drama sure noble this is episode for drama. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure.
0:23.0	Mm-hmm.
0:24.0	This is episode four titled The Happiness of All Mankind, which comes from a very ironic banner that some soldiers
0:30.7	discover as they're doing animal control in the radioactive
0:34.4	wasteland that is now Pripyat. It says our goal, the happiness of all mankind.
0:41.6	I don't think we got there yet. We're getting close. Real close.
0:45.6	Maybe next week. I'm not sure Chernobyl brought us a step towards that goal.
0:50.0	But what did you think of this fourth episode?
0:56.0	I mean I haven't seen an episode of the show that I didn't like yet.
1:00.0	I think this episode is, but perhaps not quite as interesting to me, the cleanup operation I think is inherently, you know, the long-term war as they sort of call it here is not as interesting as the sort of immediate
1:15.2	danger of the thing and dealing with that. But I do think that it was a good episode. It does a lot of interesting themes, thematic things, I think, kind of contrasting
1:29.0	the people, you know, who had to go up on this rooftop and essentially give like get an entire lifetime
1:36.0	is worth of radiation in a minute and a half, potentially giving up years of their lives
1:40.6	sacrificing in that way with the people who are sacrificing of their
1:44.0	emotional well-being, going out and killing these animals
1:48.0	in the fields of Pripyat.
1:50.0	I'm certain they're also not getting healthy levels of radiation too. Yeah absolutely
1:55.6	there which would you volunteer for 90 seconds on the roof or six weeks shooting
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