On his blog Via Meadia, Walter Russell Mead reflects on the meaning of the storm:
Sandy isn’t an irruption of abnormality into a sane and sensible world; it is a reminder of what the world really is like. Human beings want to build lives that exclude what we can’t control — but we can’t.
Hurricane Sandy is many things; one of those things is a symbol. The day is coming for all of us when a storm enters our happy, busy lives and throws them into utter disarray. The job on which everything depends can disappear. That relationship that holds everything together can fall apart. The doctor can call and say the test results are not good. All of these things can happen to anybody; something like this will happen to us all.
Somewhere in the future, each of us has an inescapable appointment with irresistible force.
Read the rest here.
October 31st, 2012 | 7:28 am
I blame Bush. He could have stopped global warming, but he refused to do so. So we still have hurricanes.
OK, I’m just KIDDING! But this line of [reasoning] is not far from the rants of Al Gore and the many who still buy into this huge pseudo-scientific hoax.
[The hoax is not in the changes in global temperatures, a known fact. The hoax is in the simplistic cause-and-effect message, the apocalyptic warnings, and the panic which causes some to believe we need to impose devastating poverty, today, right now, on the bulk of the world's population in order to solve a hypothetical problem which may or may not happen in a hundred years.]
October 31st, 2012 | 11:54 am
@Joe, The only thing you left out was that the all the warnings may be correct but the proposed cure may just fail for a different reason.
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