rant! rant! rant!
GRRRRRRRRR.
Okay, if I see ONE MORE COMMENT on the Anderson Cooper blog asking "what's the point in rebuilding New Orleans if it's just going to get hit by another hurricane anyway?", I am going to bite somebody's ass off and feed it to them.
'Cos, really, if you go by that line of reasoning, then what's the point in living on the entire East Coast? Should we shut down New York City because one day, it will inevitably get hit by a hurricane (yes, it will happen, and quite possibly in our lifetime)? And what was the point in rebuilding San Francisco after TWO earthquakes, people? Jeez, for that matter, let's declare the entire West Coast uninhabitable because of the eventual Cascadian Tsunami that'll wipe out everything from Seattle to L.A. And the Midwest? Psssht. Forget it. You saw Twister. Flying cows? I think not. And hell, I guess we really shouldn't have bothered to restore Charleston to its former glory after it got slammed by Hurricane Hugo back in '89, huh? Shit, not only is most of our city right at sea level and surrounded by rivers and ocean, but we're also on a fault line! We're double-screwed. And to think we wasted all that effort rebuilding all of those beloved, beautiful historic buildings when we should've just ... what, I don't know, moved to the fucking moon???
The earth isn't safe. We can hold as many titles and deeds as we want, but the fact of the matter is this: we don't own the world. The world owns us. Nature happens. Deal with it. And for God's sake, don't whine about how your money's being wasted saving someone else's city, because one day? It'll be your town in need. And that's not karma, baby. That's sheer inevitability.
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Okay, if I see ONE MORE COMMENT on the Anderson Cooper blog asking "what's the point in rebuilding New Orleans if it's just going to get hit by another hurricane anyway?", I am going to bite somebody's ass off and feed it to them.
'Cos, really, if you go by that line of reasoning, then what's the point in living on the entire East Coast? Should we shut down New York City because one day, it will inevitably get hit by a hurricane (yes, it will happen, and quite possibly in our lifetime)? And what was the point in rebuilding San Francisco after TWO earthquakes, people? Jeez, for that matter, let's declare the entire West Coast uninhabitable because of the eventual Cascadian Tsunami that'll wipe out everything from Seattle to L.A. And the Midwest? Psssht. Forget it. You saw Twister. Flying cows? I think not. And hell, I guess we really shouldn't have bothered to restore Charleston to its former glory after it got slammed by Hurricane Hugo back in '89, huh? Shit, not only is most of our city right at sea level and surrounded by rivers and ocean, but we're also on a fault line! We're double-screwed. And to think we wasted all that effort rebuilding all of those beloved, beautiful historic buildings when we should've just ... what, I don't know, moved to the fucking moon???
The earth isn't safe. We can hold as many titles and deeds as we want, but the fact of the matter is this: we don't own the world. The world owns us. Nature happens. Deal with it. And for God's sake, don't whine about how your money's being wasted saving someone else's city, because one day? It'll be your town in need. And that's not karma, baby. That's sheer inevitability.
THIS CONCLUDES YOUR RANT FOR TODAY LALALA MORE ACTUAL LJ SHIT LATER :)