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To: David C. Burns who wrote (10871)	9/2/2005 6:57:11 AM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 14464

This is always the case in disasters David. By definition. From Noah to the incineration of Seattle which is yet to come. It's always the same pattern. We are very good at identifying threats. In fact we will go so far as to create them where they don't exist. But... as a species... we are ill equipped to accept their implications and assess their probabilities. We are delusional... about everything important to our lives... not just our investments. So it is that we find ourselves with one foot in a grizzly trap and another in quick sand. What do we do now? Chew off one foot? Both? Slit our throats? The more complex, technological, diverse and "digitally" communicative we become, the more our self-delusions will come home to haunt us. A few centuries ago, give or take a few, we'd get together and sacrifice a child, a virgin, a captive, a witch. Now we merely kick around a few politicians. Well... maybe we shoot one now and then. But we still get plenty of volunteers and don't have to "draft" them yet. I suppose that can be called progress. But I'd just as soon see the disaster addressed first. And when it comes time to kick the politicians and decide where we have troops and how the "New" New Orleans is to be addressed, I trust that someone will remember to leave a little money for every other major city at risk of some catastrophic loss. But most of all I just hope (a) we don't have another catastrophe (despite Harvey's Hurricane Parade:) before this one is "fixed;" and (b) that this one doesn't shred what's left of the fabric that holds us together... Uh... We are still in this together aren't we? ...Hello? ...Hello!?! ...Anybody out there??! <g> 0\|0