Ghostbusters was Reaganite propaganda through and through- a vicious rejection of collective forms of spirituality and spiritual power through the use of small scale nuclear reactor technology - "atomizing" and removing any actual connection the spirits night have had to the places, living people and things that they haunted. In Reagan's America, the exorcist, the witch-doctor, the spiritualist has no power because there is no society, only individuals.
:wojak-nooo: You don't like the physical manifestation of social relations haunting you?
:so-true: Never fear, the hyper-individualized PMC social-reality remover squad will save the day!
Notice how in the sequel the judge presiding over the Ghostbuster's case is confronted with the manifestation of his own moral culpability of sentencing two brothers to death and absolves the Ghostbusters of their crimes in order to make it go away?
Walter Peck's shutdown of the neoliberal "containment" was anti-Reaganite praxis.
Yeah the NRC is, but not the EPA. That's not their job and going in and fiddling with dangerous shit yourself is irresponsible. The real villain is the lack of inter-departmental communication, as always
It is an environmental hazard, but that is not EPA jurisdiction to dispose of. The NRC exists specifically for things like this, in fact its predecessor the AEC was split into two departments, the ERDA for research and the like, and the NRC for safety concerns. With expressed protections for whistleblowers working on nuclear projects they have concerns over. Even if it was EPA territory, he brought a cop and a worker and just shut it down, which is not disposal by any stretch of the imagination
Ghostbusters was Reaganite propaganda through and through- a vicious rejection of collective forms of spirituality and spiritual power through the use of small scale nuclear reactor technology - "atomizing" and removing any actual connection the spirits night have had to the places, living people and things that they haunted. In Reagan's America, the exorcist, the witch-doctor, the spiritualist has no power because there is no society, only individuals.
:wojak-nooo: You don't like the physical manifestation of social relations haunting you?
:so-true: Never fear, the hyper-individualized PMC social-reality remover squad will save the day!
Notice how in the sequel the judge presiding over the Ghostbuster's case is confronted with the manifestation of his own moral culpability of sentencing two brothers to death and absolves the Ghostbusters of their crimes in order to make it go away?
Walter Peck's shutdown of the neoliberal "containment" was anti-Reaganite praxis.
The shutdown could've been avoided if Venkman hadn't been a prick to him and complied with the EPA when he first showed up
Eh probably not governments tend to be touchy about people running unlicensed nuclear programs in major cities
They could've probably showed the authorities Slimer or any of the other paranormal entities they caught
Yeah the NRC is, but not the EPA. That's not their job and going in and fiddling with dangerous shit yourself is irresponsible. The real villain is the lack of inter-departmental communication, as always
I don't know I could see an unlicensed nuclear reactor being an environmental hazard and the waste disposal would probably fall under EPA juristiction
It is an environmental hazard, but that is not EPA jurisdiction to dispose of. The NRC exists specifically for things like this, in fact its predecessor the AEC was split into two departments, the ERDA for research and the like, and the NRC for safety concerns. With expressed protections for whistleblowers working on nuclear projects they have concerns over. Even if it was EPA territory, he brought a cop and a worker and just shut it down, which is not disposal by any stretch of the imagination
:jesse-wtf:
all of that makes a lot of sense but the theme song still slaps