Re-meme-ber 4
And so I sometimes wonder which comes first, the chicken or the egg. Back in the summer of 1976 a terrible forest fire started near Main-a-Dieu, the most eastern point of Nova Scotia in Cape Breton. And it was all hands on deck. That included civilians and able-bodied people running out there to save what needed to be saved. It was eventually contained of course, by no small effort by all concerned. So when I watch the New Brunswick premier explaining that the ban on activities in the woods is more for the fact that anyone might hurt themselves and they wouldn’t have the resources to come to the rescue, I’m thinking… Yeah, they’re probably right. Who, in this day and age, would have the same response of civilian communities rushing to save what needed saving if they didn’t have an official role to do so? Not many. And I don’t know why it is different now but I’m sure it is to do with insurance companies and perhaps undue personal risk-avoidance and mostly this new thing we have where we expect the government to solve all hazards and problems without any effort on our part. We have already evolved into a nanny state. Some like it. Some hate it. It is what it is. Government overreach is inevitable in such situations. I don’t know how that would change or if it should. At this point, knowing how few would get a shovel and go help, I’m probably not complaining.
You went from Fear to Melancholy. I had to read it twice. Didn’t sound like you. People, even in this current twisted version of Life, can surprise us when something needs to be done. It’s the bar has been placed so high, with the programming, before people revert to ‘normal’ reactions. We must not give so much credence to the ‘Elitist’s Work’. They always fall at the last hurdle. They’ve just been emboldened by the Covid/Green successes that the race is a bit longer. Still a last hurdle though and they always underestimate it.