Competency Crisis Kills in Maui

Who do you blame when everyone is at fault?

Because we grow up reading fairy tales and watching movies, we tend to think of the world as having a tidy story arc. Beginning is boring. Big drama. Tidy ending. This structure leads us to think of the future as having grand challenges before us. We fight. We win. What if we are all going to die from incompetence?

Shock Wave.

In Beirut Lebanon an explosion inside a factory killed dozens of people and injured thousands. The film Shock Wave (high recommended) asks what happened and whether the victims can seek justice.

What happened? Nothing singular. There were layers of corruption sandwiched between lack of supervision. American audiences might find Shock Wave frustrating because there’s no comic book villain to hate. Instead there’s an amorphous blob of corrupt officials and unqualified people in a long chain of causation.

Maui Fires and Shock Wave.

The Maui Fires have killed at least 100 people, mostly children. If you read between the lines of what Hawaii’s governor is saying, the death toll is likely 1,000 or more. Almost all children.

What happened? Who is the bad guy?

The false narrative promoted by the Governor is that climate change caused the fires. He’s standing on top of dead kids for his agenda. And he’s lying.

The fires, which are common in that area of Maui, spread because of unusually high winds. The fire most likely sparked from faulty circuit breakers. (This happened in California as well.) Firefighters didn’t have enough water in basins to put out the fires because a diversity hire who worships the water god. The woo woo water man was out into his position by rich Democrats.

The emergency alarm system wasn’t activated. Kids weren’t supervised by adults.

Hundreds or even thousands of small children burned alive. Who do you blame?

All of the above, obviously. The diffusion of responsibility means no one will face appropriate consequences.

The media in the U.S. has already moved on. Too much truth got out. You can’t have Greta call a press conference and finger wag. These fires were directly traceable to the kind of people the “free press” runs propaganda for.

This is the future of the U.S.

We saw this already in East Palestine. (Remember that?)

We are facing a competency crisis, which is now a matter of life or death.

This upcoming 2024 election will be the opportunity to decide if we will die from DEI, or whether we will chose competency and human life.