A friend of mine and I have been tracking Hurricane Lee’s progress through the Atlantic Ocean. He’s a New Englander knowledgeable in matters meteorological and human-ological. When the hurricane reached Cat 5, he sent me pics of the storm that had a vertical temperature profile indicative of extreme atmospheric violence—extreme for Earth, at least; no doubt the violence of Jupiter’s centuries-old Red Spot and Little Red Spot (268 mph and 384 mph) is greater than any Earthbound hurricane’s winds.
Hurricanes on Earth
Oh! No! You’re wondering whether I’m just an old guy with a wandering mind incapable of making a point briefly. You ask yourself, “Does he have ADD, attention deficit disorder?” And then, “Focus, Donald, focus, I’m on a lunch hour break, and I don’t have much time to read one of your 4,000-word blogs. We didn’t need to know about Jupiter’s storms, just Hurricane Lee and whatever point you were about to make before your mind wandered into outer space. Besides, no one’s ever going to go to Ju—-Oh! My God, I’m doing what he does. Focus, Me, Focus. I need to get a life.”
So, my friend and I tracked the storm that posed absolutely no danger to me in western Pennsylvania, but that did pose a danger to him in Rhode Island. His area had been the target of past hurricanes and this new one could be the “next one.” But as of this writing, it seems that Lee is veering, taking the route of so many Northern Hemisphere storms by turning onto a clockwise path in spite of its counterclockwise winds, an effect of what is commonly called the Coriolis Force—though it is not in Newtonian terms actually “a force.”
What’s at play/ If you fire a powerful howitzer from the Equator directly northward, its shell will appear to take a curving turn to end up east of a target directly north of its location. Sitting in the howitzer before it is fired, the shell is already moving eastward faster than any location at higher latitude, either north or south. [ADD ALERT] That’s the reason NASA launches from say, Florida rather than from Maine. On the launchpad, the rocket is already moving faster there than it would on a Maine launchpad—where, by the way, many lighthouses look like rockets perched along a rocky coast (but I digress).
In effect, the Coriolis provides the USA with some protection from hurricanes that move northward through the Atlantic [ADD ALERT], but that didn’t stop Hurricane Agnes from devastating Pennsylvania in 1972 or Hurricane Sandy from damaging New Jersey, New York, and the New England. Where was I?
Sorry, I think there’s a mental Coriolis Force affecting my train of thought. Am I following the same path as Wise Old Joe who turns off topic as soon as he abandons the teleprompter? Focus, Donald.
Hurricanes in the Brain
Brains on Earth also seem to follow apparent curving paths, as, for example, liberal thinking turns conservative as it encounters realities. But not all. There are those periods when the liberal mind gets stuck in place, doing much damage to society just like Hurricane Agnes, which stubbornly sat in place long enough to pump its rain as far inland as western Pennsylvania, shrouding it in clouds for over a week. When liberal brains keep spinning in place, there’s little chance that a coastal environment will escape damage; just look at what has happened in New York and San Francisco.
The devastation continues as liberal policies have led to increases in crime, homelessness, and emigration of wealth. For the fortunate few who saw the storm coming and tracked it correctly, evacuation meant safety. Those who stayed behind, just like those 1,836 who stayed behind as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, suffered the consequences of ignorance about the brainstorms of liberal minds.
Tracking Liberal Brainstorms
There’s an apparent trajectory associated with most liberal brainstorms: The ideal turns toward the untenable real. The unfortunate consequence is that the damage endures. Just as it takes years to rebuild an area devastated by a hurricane, so it takes years—even decades—to rebuild an area devastated by liberal ideals, most of them centered on utopian fictions, like Seattle’s hiring six people to serve as “alternative crisis responders” who will handle domestic disputes. These unarmed people will supposedly defuse the situations that in so many cases have resulted in harm to armed police. Those who accept the job should, in the words of William Kirk in a YouTube video entitled “Meet America's Dumbest and Soon to Be Most Dangerous City” have their wills in order, invest in more life insurance, and notify the next-of-kin. *
This is a brewing storm that will be easy to track. We know exactly where the devastation will occur and that it will include injuries and deaths. We know that it will take years of recovery. Maybe no recovery will be possible. There are models going back 12,000 years to Karahan Tepe that cities have been abandoned. The slums of today were once vital neighborhoods.
And although one could argue that social entropy is inevitable, the reality of liberal storms destroying society through unattainable and unrealistic ideals is already in evidence in coastal cities.
The Sanctuary City Storm
One easily predictable storm started not so much on water but on land, specifically, the land that separates Mexico from the United States. The liberal brainstorm to open the border and declare sanctuaries caused a storm surge of migrants that washed first over the southern states and then into cities like New York and Chicago. Yes, Chicago, even far inland and away from any apparent hurricane effects, is now seeing the consequences of “sanctuary.” And in New York, that storm has the mayor panicked. This isn’t just a matter of Hurricane Sandy’s water washing in temporarily and then receding. This is a flood that is here to stay, and it is also a flood that has long-time residents chased away. Predictable? Easily so. But not for the liberal forecasters who “knew better than the rest of us.”
National Brainstorm Center
We need an analog, a National Brainstorm Center, that mimics the work of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Those working in the new center will be knowledgeable about the natural trends of brainstorms and will make predictions. Yes, they will get some details wrong, some tracks wrong, but they won’t miss by much in forecasting the results of a storm. The liberal brainstorms follow somewhat predictable paths. The destruction they wreak is almost inevitable, the movement of their storms almost ineluctable.
But we have to try to predict and then warn. Of course, history shows that warnings often fall on deaf ears. It’s only in the aftermath that those stubbornly adherent to ideals realize that they have actually generated their own storms and placed them on paths so evident that the wise know when to get out of the way.
*Meet America's Dumbest and Soon to Be Most Dangerous City
Hurricanes on Earth
Oh! No! You’re wondering whether I’m just an old guy with a wandering mind incapable of making a point briefly. You ask yourself, “Does he have ADD, attention deficit disorder?” And then, “Focus, Donald, focus, I’m on a lunch hour break, and I don’t have much time to read one of your 4,000-word blogs. We didn’t need to know about Jupiter’s storms, just Hurricane Lee and whatever point you were about to make before your mind wandered into outer space. Besides, no one’s ever going to go to Ju—-Oh! My God, I’m doing what he does. Focus, Me, Focus. I need to get a life.”
So, my friend and I tracked the storm that posed absolutely no danger to me in western Pennsylvania, but that did pose a danger to him in Rhode Island. His area had been the target of past hurricanes and this new one could be the “next one.” But as of this writing, it seems that Lee is veering, taking the route of so many Northern Hemisphere storms by turning onto a clockwise path in spite of its counterclockwise winds, an effect of what is commonly called the Coriolis Force—though it is not in Newtonian terms actually “a force.”
What’s at play/ If you fire a powerful howitzer from the Equator directly northward, its shell will appear to take a curving turn to end up east of a target directly north of its location. Sitting in the howitzer before it is fired, the shell is already moving eastward faster than any location at higher latitude, either north or south. [ADD ALERT] That’s the reason NASA launches from say, Florida rather than from Maine. On the launchpad, the rocket is already moving faster there than it would on a Maine launchpad—where, by the way, many lighthouses look like rockets perched along a rocky coast (but I digress).
In effect, the Coriolis provides the USA with some protection from hurricanes that move northward through the Atlantic [ADD ALERT], but that didn’t stop Hurricane Agnes from devastating Pennsylvania in 1972 or Hurricane Sandy from damaging New Jersey, New York, and the New England. Where was I?
Sorry, I think there’s a mental Coriolis Force affecting my train of thought. Am I following the same path as Wise Old Joe who turns off topic as soon as he abandons the teleprompter? Focus, Donald.
Hurricanes in the Brain
Brains on Earth also seem to follow apparent curving paths, as, for example, liberal thinking turns conservative as it encounters realities. But not all. There are those periods when the liberal mind gets stuck in place, doing much damage to society just like Hurricane Agnes, which stubbornly sat in place long enough to pump its rain as far inland as western Pennsylvania, shrouding it in clouds for over a week. When liberal brains keep spinning in place, there’s little chance that a coastal environment will escape damage; just look at what has happened in New York and San Francisco.
The devastation continues as liberal policies have led to increases in crime, homelessness, and emigration of wealth. For the fortunate few who saw the storm coming and tracked it correctly, evacuation meant safety. Those who stayed behind, just like those 1,836 who stayed behind as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, suffered the consequences of ignorance about the brainstorms of liberal minds.
Tracking Liberal Brainstorms
There’s an apparent trajectory associated with most liberal brainstorms: The ideal turns toward the untenable real. The unfortunate consequence is that the damage endures. Just as it takes years to rebuild an area devastated by a hurricane, so it takes years—even decades—to rebuild an area devastated by liberal ideals, most of them centered on utopian fictions, like Seattle’s hiring six people to serve as “alternative crisis responders” who will handle domestic disputes. These unarmed people will supposedly defuse the situations that in so many cases have resulted in harm to armed police. Those who accept the job should, in the words of William Kirk in a YouTube video entitled “Meet America's Dumbest and Soon to Be Most Dangerous City” have their wills in order, invest in more life insurance, and notify the next-of-kin. *
This is a brewing storm that will be easy to track. We know exactly where the devastation will occur and that it will include injuries and deaths. We know that it will take years of recovery. Maybe no recovery will be possible. There are models going back 12,000 years to Karahan Tepe that cities have been abandoned. The slums of today were once vital neighborhoods.
And although one could argue that social entropy is inevitable, the reality of liberal storms destroying society through unattainable and unrealistic ideals is already in evidence in coastal cities.
The Sanctuary City Storm
One easily predictable storm started not so much on water but on land, specifically, the land that separates Mexico from the United States. The liberal brainstorm to open the border and declare sanctuaries caused a storm surge of migrants that washed first over the southern states and then into cities like New York and Chicago. Yes, Chicago, even far inland and away from any apparent hurricane effects, is now seeing the consequences of “sanctuary.” And in New York, that storm has the mayor panicked. This isn’t just a matter of Hurricane Sandy’s water washing in temporarily and then receding. This is a flood that is here to stay, and it is also a flood that has long-time residents chased away. Predictable? Easily so. But not for the liberal forecasters who “knew better than the rest of us.”
National Brainstorm Center
We need an analog, a National Brainstorm Center, that mimics the work of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Those working in the new center will be knowledgeable about the natural trends of brainstorms and will make predictions. Yes, they will get some details wrong, some tracks wrong, but they won’t miss by much in forecasting the results of a storm. The liberal brainstorms follow somewhat predictable paths. The destruction they wreak is almost inevitable, the movement of their storms almost ineluctable.
But we have to try to predict and then warn. Of course, history shows that warnings often fall on deaf ears. It’s only in the aftermath that those stubbornly adherent to ideals realize that they have actually generated their own storms and placed them on paths so evident that the wise know when to get out of the way.
*Meet America's Dumbest and Soon to Be Most Dangerous City
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