the slow realization that no one was coming to save us as we watched the fire creep closer and closer to our house had a very strong effect on how I feel about politics and government services in general.
I'm not going to blog about why I feel this way but I do strongly feel this is one of the great forks in how people view the world -- you either understand this feeling intimately, and take it upon yourself to prepare accordingly, or you're lucky enough to be ignorant of it.
For all the spite and contempt and venom and bile I've been spitting here about Californians and L.A. specifically, I watched a fair bit of coverage of how communities in the southeast came together in the wake of hurricane Helene and I have so much respect and pride to be a citizen of the same country as the fifty million Americans who live outside of bughives and understand and respect the precarious pact that mankind has with mother nature, people who know their neighbors and don't take the amenities afforded to us by civilization for granted, because they know what it's like to live without them.
I will preface this by saying that I am fully aware how cringe it is, but I think part of the reason Far Cry 5 is so beloved by lolberts and magaloids is because the writers perfectly encapsulated an aspect of what it means to live in truly rural America in the opening moments of the game when the antagonist ominously whispers "No one is coming to save you." It's not a threat, it's just a reality, one which commands reverence moreso than fear. You have to be capable, because there might not be anyone else to do it for you.
But it's a reality for everyone everywhere. It's just a matter of scale. Listen to New Yorkers talk about going through 9/11, and how that crippled the infrastructure for days. People couldn't even call their families, not because of damage to the network, but because so many people were trying to call people that they were effectively DDOSing the phone lines. One mass casualty event causing infrastructure to become completely overwhelmed because it's not designed to handle anything more than the day-to-day. To say nothing of inevitable acts of nature.
There's an illusion of safety in modernity that lulls people into complacency if they've never experienced the alternative, and unfortunately it often takes events of this scale for many to wake up to it.
Meanwhile these Cali faggots have been watching it happen every summer for as long as I can remember and just shut their eyes and plug their ears and do nothing about it, just like they do with every pernicious inconvenient reality that threatens their constructed worldview until one day they're the ones on fire. Lol, get fucked.