Most people probably still don’t care (physically, emotionally and politically) about the disaster that is now New Orleans and Louisiana (or have probably tried to move on as best one can), and if so, those same people probably haven’t even heard of the recent place crash in Indonesia that killed 148 people. Let’s face it, as horrible as events like these are, these events must happen if there is any hope of uniting the world. Common political events like both World Wars and more realistic events like natural disasters ooze with the potential to bring all nationalities, races and sexes together and try to form a more peaceful world a la Star Trek. Small steps won’t go noticed in the grand scheme of Capitalism (which is why no one ever no-tices anything done by the United Nations), so big steps are needed to help wake the world up to the reality that the human race will only survive if we work together.
I wanted to come up with a list of the ideas that I think come out of Katrina – possible blame, possible personality traits that contribute to bad things happening. Many of these don’t include having Bush or a Republican as president; it’s a little more complex than that.
1. Ignorance - Most of you have probably noticed that many natural disasters have oc-curred relatively recently. Some may claim that global warming is the chief culprit, and to a point it is a very logical assessment. However, as unpredictable as nature seems to be, we have come a long way to being able to see nature’s pattern and routine. Statisti-cally, we can look at the frequency at which natural events occur, and to some degree of success predict when the next one will occur.
Events like earthquakes and hurricanes do happen, but can we prevent them? No, and we probably never will. The only way to protect our selves from natural disasters is preparation, not prevention. If we know that disasters like tsunamis and hurricanes will occur, being prepared for them is the best way to handle them. There is only so much you can blame the government for what has happened in Louisiana. The fact of the mat-ter is that many people had no idea how dangerous hurricanes could be to that region (not to mention the real risk of having most of the region below sea level). That’s really no one’s fault but their own. It’s like living in California and not knowing the risk of earth-quakes or living in New York and not knowing the risk of muggings.
Article comments
1 - RogerMDillion
I don't get your hyphen use at all. It ruins the pacing of your writing.
Nor do I understand your claim that God is angry. What is that based on? Just because something doesn't benefit humans or Americans doesn't mean God's actions are based in anger. He does work in mysterious ways after all.
2 - Tan The Man
Maybe one of those ways is to try to strength us through destruction and fear.
3 - RogerMDillion
Then how would that be anger?
4 - Tan The Man
See 2 & 3... we're both of those and God doesn't like it that we are...
5 - Eric Berlin
Why blame "God" for anything? I've never understood that.
6 - RogerMDillion
Maybe God shouldn't have made us that way? Don't give us the ability to act selfish and greedy and then get mad when we do? If he has to punish us to act the right way, then we won't be choosing to be good.
7 - Doug Hannan
This blog reminds me of those old Monty Python skits that start off sensibly enough then descend into total wierdness until someone walks in and declares "too silly, too silly".
5. God - God is angry and there’s no stopping Him.
Indeed. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
8 - Doug Hannan
One can only hope for Tan the Man's sake that rambling nonsensical outbursts don't piss God off either.
9 - Tan The Man
Good one...
10 - Eric Berlin
Doug -- Didn't that usually involve the Comedy Police?
11 - Scott Butki
I think God is mad about the hyphens. She is very picky about grammar.
12 - Tan The Man
Do you guys mean the front ones after the numbers? Cause I'm using them as like bullets...
13 - Tan The Man
Ah, nevermind, I see... I used Apple Pages to write it, and it auto-hypenated....