Thoughts on the Movie, Oppenheimer

1- First and foremost. Go to see it. In fact, it's so good I may go to see it again.

2- Do not buy the left wing bullshite that the movie is somehow illustrating that we dropped the bomb only bc we had spent so much money and Japan was about to surrender anyway. The bomb was the only reason Japan surrendered and WWII ended. The only insinuation the movie makes about this surrender point was that the Deep State put out a narrative that Oppenheimer insisted we drop it out of hubris.

3- The point of the movie is WTF hath we wrought by building this bomb. Ultimately, the arch of the story is that the Deep State persecuted Oppenheimer bc he was politically vocal that we shouldn't build the H-Bomb bc it was way more dangerous. There are so many things that science and its progress could lead to that are a pandora's box (ex AI), that ethics in science are a MUST. And that issue is fascinating.

4- It is ironic that the leftwinger morons are arguing point 2, since the movie essentially can be interpretted as turning Oppenheimer into some left wing martyr of McCarthyism. Despite this, it has many and deeper points about the Deep State and its origins, along with the dangers of hubris with scientists and combining it with government which can be traced directly to the Manhattan Project.

5 - I have no idea whether Oppenheimer was a communist or just hung out with them bc academia is infested with them anyway. I don't buy any Hollywood interpretation that he was not a commie, bc again, Hollywood is infested with morons who think that being a communist is the epitome of virtue. The movie takes great pains to show that Oppenheimer was not a communist, even though he knew some communists. That said, I do believe he was loyal to his country and did not share any nuclear secrets with the USSR (as concluded by the Deep State itself at some point). There were other actual communists on the Manhattan Project approved by the goverment despite their communism - and so frick the MIC. We should have never given them security clearances, or let them be on the Manhattan Project.

6 - The origin of the Deep State was what they did to Oppenheimer.

7 - The movie is a study in the dangers of making scientists part of the government bc ultimately these scientists have to become politicians to survive. In light of recent events (cough Fauci and DOD research related to bioweapons), this is particularly compelling.

8- I should have never gone to see this movie bc I'm currently reading Dr. Mary's Monkey.

9- The Deep State will flat out wreck the life of any scientist who they find to be no longer useful, with zero consequences.

10- The Deep State needs to be obliterrated. Torn out Root and Branch.

ETA - Edited to fix numbering. But otherwise, please discuss.