{"id":4008,"date":"2019-09-14T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santiagotalavera.com\/videos\/el-destructor-de-mundos\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:46:14","slug":"the-destroyer-of-worlds","status":"publish","type":"nor-videos","link":"https:\/\/santiagotalavera.com\/en\/videos\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"The destroyer of worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">El triunfo de la t\u00e9cnica ha hecho que nuestro mundo, aunque inventado y edificado por nosotros mismos, haya alcanzado tal enormidad que ha dejado de ser realmente \u00abnuestro\u00bb en un sentido psicol\u00f3gicamente verificable.<br>[\u2026] Los objetos que hoy estamos acostumbrados a producir con la ayuda de nuestra t\u00e9cnica imposible de contener, as\u00ed como los efectos que somos capaces de provocar, son tan enormes y tan potentes que ya no podemos concebirlos, y menos a\u00fan identificarlos como nuestros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G\u00fcnther Anders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br>\u00a0<br>El fil\u00f3sofo G\u00fcnther Anders traz\u00f3, en sus correspondencias con Claude Eatherly1 y el hijo de Adolf Eichmann2, el antagonismo entre dos figuras clave para entender el siglo XX y que resumen una constante de su pensamiento: la limitada capacidad del ser humano para representarse los cada vez mayores efectos de aquello con lo que colabora.<br>\u00a0<br>La terrible culpa y los demonios interiores de Eatherly, el piloto de Hiroshima que rechaz\u00f3 ser tratado como h\u00e9roe y que incomodaba a su pa\u00eds hasta el punto de borrar casi totalmente su huella historiogr\u00e1fica, resuenan hoy a trav\u00e9s del conmovedor testimonio de sus cartas al fil\u00f3sofo polaco: \u201cTengo la impresi\u00f3n de que en la c\u00e1rcel me he sentido siempre m\u00e1s feliz: el castigo me permit\u00eda expiar mi culpa\u201d. Tras abrir camino al Enola Gay y errar el c\u00e1lculo en el lanzamiento de la bomba at\u00f3mica sobre Hiroshima, sus intentos de suicidio y vida err\u00e1tica en forma de peque\u00f1os robos e infracciones para que le arrestaran, casi siempre sin \u00e9xito, fraguaron en convertirse en una figura clave de los movimientos antinucleares y pacifistas que contrastaban con la fabricaci\u00f3n de la bomba de hidr\u00f3geno y el discurso hegem\u00f3nico del \u201cmal necesario\u201d.<br><br>Lo normal para enfrentarse a la aniquilaci\u00f3n de miles de vidas ser\u00eda, pues, una \u201cmaniobra de ocultaci\u00f3n: en seguir viviendo exactamente como se viv\u00eda antes, en retirar lo sucedido de la mesa de la vida, de modo que la culpa demasiado grande no se viva como culpa alguna\u201d3. De esta manera obr\u00f3 Paul Tibbets, el piloto del Enola Gay que reconoc\u00eda no haber dormido mal ni una noche de su vida. Adolf Eichmann, el arquitecto nazi del genocidio jud\u00edo, declaraba en 1961, en su famoso juicio en Jerusal\u00e9n, que \u00e9l no hab\u00eda sido m\u00e1s que una pieza m\u00e1s de aquella m\u00e1quina, \u201cme limit\u00e9 a obedecer \u00f3rdenes. No soy ni un criminal ni un asesino en serie\u201d.<br><br>\u00a0Nuestra delegaci\u00f3n moral al asignar competencias, fruto de la divisi\u00f3n del trabajo, as\u00ed como los l\u00edmites de la conciencia que marcan nuestra finitud ps\u00edquica e imaginativa, tambi\u00e9n hicieron mella en Robert J. Oppenheimer, director del Proyecto Manhattan y \u201cpadre\u201d de la primera bomba at\u00f3mica. En 1965, ya retirado, recordaba ante la c\u00e1mara aquel 16 de julio de 1945 en que una bola de fuego cegadora de 12 kil\u00f3metros anunciaba el \u00e9xito de la prueba nuclear Trinity en Nuevo M\u00e9xico. Con gesto visiblemente afectado, recitaba el pasaje del texto sagrado hind\u00fa Bhagavad Gita que le vino a la mente:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Vishnu trata de persuadir al Pr\u00edncipe de que debe cumplir su obligaci\u00f3n y, para impresionarlo, toma su forma de muchos brazos y dice, \u2018Ahora me he convertido en la Muerte, el destructor de mundos<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Para convencer al pr\u00edncipe hind\u00fa Arjuna de que ha de ir a la guerra, a lo que \u00e9ste se niega pues supondr\u00eda matar a los suyos, el dios Vishnu le da a entender que no puede rehuir un deber que es m\u00e1s grande que \u00e9l: es su obligaci\u00f3n, y no est\u00e1 en su mano elegir. Tras ello, Arjuna va a la guerra. Como bien describe James A. Hijiya en un ensayo4, Oppenheimer conoc\u00eda en profundidad el hinduismo, y us\u00f3 la inspiraci\u00f3n del Gita como parte de un c\u00f3digo \u00e9tico en el que se apoyaba para tomar decisiones de una gran contradicci\u00f3n moral.<br>\u00a0<br>Partiendo de este hecho hist\u00f3rico clave del siglo XX y que marc\u00f3 el inicio de la era nuclear, el destructor de mundos aborda, a modo de peque\u00f1o ensayo visual, reflexiones sobre el triunfo de la t\u00e9cnica y sus efectos en la naturaleza y preguntas sobre nuestra limitada capacidad de concebir los cada vez mayores da\u00f1os que somos capaces de provocar, as\u00ed como el dilema entre la delegaci\u00f3n moral y la acci\u00f3n social antib\u00e9lica y nuclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santiago Talavera, julio de 2018<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The destroyer of worlds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[109],"nor-videos_cat":[684],"class_list":["post-4008","nor-videos","type-nor-videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-santiago-talavera","nor-videos_cat-videoart-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The destroyer of worlds - Santiago Talavera<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/santiagotalavera.com\/en\/videos\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The destroyer of worlds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The destroyer of worlds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/santiagotalavera.com\/en\/videos\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Santiago Talavera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SantiagoTalavera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-26T09:46:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/santiagotalavera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/15.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@s_talavera\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/\",\"name\":\"The destroyer of worlds - Santiago Talavera\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/15.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-14T18:32:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-26T09:46:14+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/15.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/15.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Santiago Talavera\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/videos\\\/the-destroyer-of-worlds\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Portada\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The destroyer of worlds\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/santiagotalavera.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Santiago Talavera\",\"description\":\"Santiago Talavera. 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