What a strange week. Yesterday, I wrote about how Isis-K (turns out they’re employing a franchise model), and how the Brain’s Trust back in HQ thought the best way to destroy the sinful West was (checks notes) attack a concert hall in Moscow. Today, a bridge in Baltimore collapsed, and I mean collapsed, after a ship ran into it.
It is interesting what we find fascinating. Bridge collapses seem to really grab people’s attentions; more than a wildfire, or a conflict in Africa, or a new discovery in physics. I don’t know why exactly; perhaps there is the idea that if the bridge could go, what is stopping the subway system filling with water, or a plane falling out of the sky? Perhaps it is the dramatic nature of a collapse; within seconds it goes from an engineering marvel to a mess of steel at the bottom of the river.
With every story, there are always two parts: the story, and then the commentary. I read this today, and thought I would end my post on this:
Little is known at this time, but we do know this: Morons of every ideological stripe will try to jam this event into the same narratives that they use to explain everything. They will infer and misread and squint and stand on their head until this event supports — nay, confirms — everything that they believed all along.
This statement refers to the bridge collapse, but it could apply to many things.
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