The apocalyptic wildfires that have displaced from their homes, upwards of 100,000 Los Angeles County residents to date, in our view, would warrant the horrific designation as a residential holocaust, as well as a destroyer of untold acres of woodlands, businesses, automobiles, and an unaccountable number of personal property.
The veracity of the apocryphal story recounting the playing of a fiddle by Roman Emperor, Nero while Rome burned, may not merit sufficient verisimilitude. However, the lack of empathy demonstrated by our modern Nero the, President-Elect was evident and undeniable. We doubt he evinced the minimum of concern sufficient to visit the catastrophic scene. More on the thematic subject of America’s “Latter Day Nero” following some thoughtful comments regarding the nature of human loss.
The uncontrollable wildfire’s destruction of multiple thousands of homes evokes an unfathomable degree of empathy towards their prior residents, most especially consisting of the realization that residential real estate, viz., “homes” have a subjective, humanistic value to their residents, that is conceivably, far greater and unrelated to its objective equity ownership, as proprietary capital assets.
While it is truer that the ownership of real estate, factually constitutes objective asset ownership, residential real estate is commonly accompanied by a singular emotional perception as the existence of a traditional and intimately familiar family shrine, intangubly embued with eternal institutional existence. For many individuals, the destruction of “home,” is deemed paramount in its emotional impact compared with the objective loss of a principal asset.
Ultimate regret was also expressed concerning the unexpected and sudden loss of their principal, or sole, capital asset. Some individuals indicated that the entire amount of their life’s earnings, including family savings, were thereby destroyed. In many cases, the ownership of the now-decimated home represented the destruction of their envisioned dreams and their lifelong goal.
Despite the immensity of the tragedy, emotionally and financially, the orange egotistic President-Elect seemed visibly undisturbed and notably, disinterested. His singular neurotic, knee-jerk reaction was to seek out the parties responsible for the tragic event. It has been observed that his trademark reaction to human tragedy, is to construe conspiratorial ideations by which blame is tactically attributed to his political enemies viz., “”Governor Newsom is too interested in DEI to take care of the water hydrants,” plus an Alice in Wonderland cornucopia of paranoid attribution.
No thought was observably given by our modern Nero to global warming and its consequent exacerbation of the natural elements, demonstratively resulting in major flooding, tsunamis, abnormal temperatures, great winds, and other abnormal and dangerous consequences of the fouling of our planet’s atmosphere, scientifically attributable to carbon emission by continued and suicidal use of fossil fuels.
Characterlogicaly consistent with his responsibly sage medical advice proffer during the pandemic, viz., to drink bathroom cleanser as the reliable panacea, Donald Trump rewards the fossil fuel lobbyists for the millions of dollars of campaign contributions, by his persistent, publically spouted mantra, “Drill baby drill! ”
At least Emperor Nero could play the violin.
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