Shenanigans of the Inanigans
Nature is mad.
She's not the only one.
Her ire is expressed in fire, currently the devastation being visited upon Los Angeles.
She could have chosen, and still may choose, ice. Take it from me, after 6 days without power in the middle of winter, ice is not nice. (1)
A lot of people are mad also.
A lot of people are not nice.
How can nice survive when a large nation wants to arrest immigrants, except those immigrants who have high-tech skills and will be paid much less than the fired American workers they replace? (2)
That's another kind of fire about to be visited on U.S. workers.
How can nice survive when separating infants from their parents at the border becomes official doctrine once again? It violates every moral code to put borders between children and their families. Those families clean our homes, staff our medical facilities, cook at our restaurants, care for the elderly and the disabled.
These are far beyond shenanigans. To paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein, an old weeping willow is laughing at we.
What we have done to the planet is no laughing matter.
What we have done to children now being fired upon while learning their ABC's is beyond comprehension.
What are we? Maybe nature's rage is a reasonable response to the rapacious way she has been treated.
Nature got mad at us. No longer are the sounds of the earth like music. The sounds of the earth today are like cacophony - raucous and screeching. (3)
Why aren't more of us mad at the way we treat the homeless, the aging, the poor, the disabled, the veterans of wars we should never have fought?
Why aren't we mad when greed overwhelms caution in the frenetic race to monetize AI?
The Inanigans are up to far more than shenanigans. They are fired up over slogans, falsehoods, self interest, and hatred of anything that is not plain white vanilla. And you and I are about to get badly burned.
c. Corinne Whitaker 1996 - 2025 and always
(1)Viewers interested in ice and its connection to human extinction might want to read about a piece of ice that is a million years old.
(2) The McKinsey Global Institute says up to 800 million jobs worldwide could be lost to AI, including a significant portion of front-line jobs in service, retail, and manufacturing industries. In the U.S. alone, 45 million jobs could be wiped out by AI by 2030. By comparison, during the Great Recession an estimated 8.8 million Americans lost their jobs.
(3)Rodgers & Hammerstein, "Oklahoma".
(4) Robert Frost, 1920: "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice."
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