What celebrities snow and ice have become! Some of these snow/ice videos are astonishing, or rather the people are, the crashing and sliding cars are.
I envy and admire the people on these videos. That is not facetious. Nor is it schadenfreude.
People of a certain latitude have a chance to show what they are made of, as they experience Noble Suffering this winter. Even better, they are learning -- or relearning -- some facts of life that they seem to have forgotten.
They are relearning cold, friction, momentum, gravity, wind and other old-fashioned analog variables. One might even be tempted to call these things facts, as authoritarian as that sounds. Actually Nature's authoritarian streak tends to get neglected as poets and philosophers celebrate the freedom and spontaneity of living in 'harmony with nature.'
Society had been circling the drain in a digital world, the world of what you see on an electronic screen. It was a world drunk on censored fake news, fake threats of various kinds, trashy music with no melody, self-inflicted economic problems, the great God of Democracy in Kiev, 64 or 128 (or 256) genders, and fake money dropped from helicopters. And now, people are sobering up.
If all of that weren't enough, the Southwest is starting to see a secondary rainy season in winter, like they are supposed to have -- but haven't -- the last few winters.
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