The lesson of Afghanistan is that the obliteration of human rights, even at a distance, can threaten us all.
The Iraq War was the colossal, mechanised obliteration of human life.
Walter Miller's classic postapocalyptic sci-fi novel A Canticle for Leibowitz (rating: 90) is a beautiful, serious exploration of the formation and reformation of human faith amid the obliteration of collective memory; in its own way, so is Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy (rating: 92. In both books, inchoate organized religions form out of fear and desire to believe.
These results are also consistent with histological features of human BA such as bile duct obliteration and proliferation, lymphocyte infiltration of the periportal areas, and progressive bridging liver fibrosis [ 37].
Very much a comment on the ethics of the seemingly advanced Victorian world, he continually compares the Martians' acts of destruction to our own obliteration of indigenous animal and human populations in the name of "progress".
We examined the brains of iTDP-43WT mice and found that they had striking forebrain atrophy regardless of phenotype (Fig. 2); however, the extent of atrophy and the relative age at which atrophy occurred were dramatically different than observed in human TDP-43 proteinopathies, with almost complete obliteration of neuroanatomical structures, such as the dentate fascia of the hippocampus.
In the human literature there is debate as to whether obliteration of the foramen magnum is the only pathogenetic factor responsible for the development of CSF pressure waves, because herniation of less than 5 mm or even absent herniation can still be accompanied by classic Chiari symptomatology [ 8- 10].
The great Shulamith Firestone once wrote that when women and homosexuals began to dominate in any field of human endeavour, it was a sign of its imminent obliteration; she might have added Jews.
"It is an emergency about the obliteration of democracy, a complete disregard for human rights all over the world, a government which is corrupt and a media that has been infected by the same thing," she said in an interview before the first of two shows.
But does the obliteration of the planet and the extinction of human life always have to be such a downer?
