(Updated: 09-02-08)

Hurricane Gustav & Crazy People

Well the last seven days have certainly been eventful! We started off the week hearing how Hurricane Gustav was going to be the next Hurricane Katrina (which was simply the next Hurricane Betsy, or Camille,  hell you know every bad thing has to be the 'next' bad thing of some previous bad thing still in the collective memory) Turns out wasn't much  to it and people were going crazy for nothing.

What truly blows me away is how crazy everyone went even this far inland! I mean here we are, 130 miles from the gulf coast, and every grocery store and gas station was packed. People stocking up on gas, batteries, anything and everything. Their fear of a shortage was/is going to cause a shortage!

In 2003 there was a movie Paycheck that said it best... if you prophesy a war, then you go to war to avert a war you have made a self-fulfilling prophesy. The same with the hurricanes; if you prophesy a disaster, a shortage of food and gas, then to avert that shortage you and everyone you know go out to buy and stock up on all the food and gas, then there IS a shortage and all you smart-asses sit back and say 'see, I told you. I warned you, but I was prepared' Aw. Fuck off!!! You idiots are the cause of the problem not some great intellect that foresaw catastrophe. If you and everyone else like you would sit down and shut the fuck up everything would be all right.

Take Hurricane Katrina. Sure the shit was bad... even reached us this far inland... but people came together, helped their neighbors and we all got by. We survived together. My dad had a camper trailer than ran a fridge and stove off of butane, so all of our family and neighbors brought food and we cooked and all provided for each other for the two weeks we were without power. 

The fact is that the world keeps on turning, people repair, adapt and make do. The thing that pisses me off is that some idiot goes out and buys all kinds of stuff to be so-called 'prepared' and then people that really need it can't get it cause you were such a glutton you had to buy up everything! So its your fault when some old man dies when his alert bracelet didn't sound off because it had an old battery and you have 12 packs of 20 sitting in junk drawer leaking acid because you bought them and now have no use for them. And  its your fault when the poor family that was living week to week starves to death because you bought 30 loaves of bread and 20 gallons of milk because in all your excess you didn't want to be in anyway inconvenienced.

You think you are so smart. You think you are geniuses and you feel vindicated when you see everyone else making the same mad rush. I think you are all fucking idiots. It's all greed - plain and simple. I am reminded of the prisoners dilemma - if everyone would cooperate it would be win-win, but no one wants to believe in another's goodness or understanding, they instead choose to believe in another's greed and selfish desires which is simply a mirror of their own corrupt heart.  It sucks to be you.

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