That New Orleans politician said that Katrina’s effect has been a huge improvement in the city’s education system.

Of course, he is correct. Our civilization is munching on our seed corn. The Climate Change idiocy resulted from our belief that humans can control the entire world and its beginning and its end. The USA is, currently, being run by people who have not thought a new thought since they ran their high school student council.

So, when the unpleasant surprise appears, I think it will be a good thing for our civilization. One straw in the wind? Imminent financial dissolution. Poverty. Oooh.

And think: 14th century Europeans survived the Black Death. One Third of Europe’s populations died in a gruesome manner. Whole regions were stripped of their people. And… they picked themselves up and planted anew. OK?

I have some sympathy with the Islamic criticism of my civilization. It IS decadent. It IS weak. It WHINES and COMPLAINS.

In the 1880s, THREE of my grandmother’s siblings died of diptheria in ONE WEEK. My grandmother got sick too, and was ill for a year afterwards. Her sister died of TB. Yet, whole swatches of half educated FOOLS refuse to have their children vaccinated against tetanus, measles and diptheria.

As Bill Whittle has pointed out, our government has grown around us like kudzu. I think that if our civilization has any worth at all, after the coming ‘surprise’ it will pick itself up and carry on. Or it won’t.