There are times when I feel like I could shed my cynical shell, and then there are times when I know I have it because it fits me like a fucking glove. Like now, for example: the news is full of California being on fire. This irritates me for 2 reasons:
1) This area of California is a fire-based ecology. You don't want your house on fire, don't build it where things catch on fire, routinely, naturally. Just like you can't build your house on a massive fault line and then be surprised when an earthquake rips it in half. There's plenty of land in Montana with absolutely nothing wrong with it. Go live there.
2) This happens regularly. Like every two or three years. You'd think that if your house almost burned down once, you'd move. Did you expect that these forests would stop drying out and getting struck by lightning? Did you think that, somehow, billions of years of evolution would reroute itself so you can live closer to LA? Again. Nothing wrong with Montana.
I swear I'm really not a terrible person, or lacking in compassion. I just get so fed up with the stupidity of the human race at times.
2 comments:
You're more cynical than I am, that's for sure.
Maybe people shouldn't live in areas that are prone to nasty ecological conditions... but I'm going to guess that most of the people in the area don't know about fire ecology, assume that if someone builds somewhere, that means its safe, and assume that if something big and bad happens once, preventative measures will somehow keep it from happening again.
We talked about these fire in my torts class today; a bit before they all started, we'd actually had a whole day talking about liability and cause in fact and proximate cause for spreading fires, and where do you cut off liability when someone IS responsible for starting it? where the start the fire? the first adjacent? all of it? Interesting questions.
certainly: nothing wrong with montana
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