Our news is filled with images of Hurricane Katrina. Sure, I feel bad and I've done my little bit already. So it is without guilt that I turn my thoughts to the mystery of Atlantis...
Watching a hurricane flood out a major American city from an indirect hit, it makes you consider the possibilities...
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Given the Apocalyptic scale of Katrina's wake that has become apparent over the last few days, this article does give you pause to consider the possibilities.
If someone had told me that a major American city could be reduced to rubble by a storm lasting a single day and that complate and total anarchy would result, I'd have laughed at them.
It goes to show that once again, my faith in both Humanity and the American Way is too trusting. Or perhaps both these ideals are far too fragile.
I'd go with fragile and it only works when you work with others who hold those ideals to be true.
So when they rebuild will it be Newer Orleans?
If N.O. was built on wetlands, and Mother Nature has reclaimed it, and Corps of Engineers federal rules say that you cannot build on wetlands, are they permitted to rebuild? Farmers have lost the right to farm land that has been farmed for generations over the same rules.
I don't know why we think we are exempt from the patterns of history. Nobody likes to live in fear. We want to feel safe, part of Asimov's hierarchy, so we can move on to other things in life. We lull in the safety of our technology and our money and our storages of things, but the earth and it's elements are powerful and rule us all. Inevitably we will all die and the earth will reclaim us, sometimes literally. No doubt, in the past there were places destroyed that left no trace of who they were, places and peoples unknown to history. Sometimes I wonder what has happened throughout history right here on the little spot on earth I call my own.
Oops, Freudian slip there. I meant Pavlov's hierarchy, tee-hee. Who the hell is Asimov?
Ok...my psych 101 is very rusty. MASLOW!
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