Cruise ship metaphor — how society sinks to its lowest common denominator

© 2020 Peter Free

 

09 March 2020

 

 

Consider this and laugh

 

Passengers on cruise ships today, all boarded ship well after the well-publicized Wuhan (COVID-19) coronavirus pandemic began.

 

Now, these cruise-shippers are floating around trying to land ashore.

 

That way, they can pass the virus on to folks who are (arguably) more sensible — or just poorer — than they were.

 

I guess Recklessness's backwash is one way of enforcing egalitarianism and political correctness.

 

 

In a related vein

 

When American culture is too lazy, too cheap, too stupid — or just too unmotivated — to do something, we assign our choiceless guys and gals in military uniform to do it.

 

In California, roughly one thousand to-be-quarantined Grand Princess cruise-ship folk are going to Travis Air Force Base and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. These hundreds will join others already stuck there.

 

The rest of the new quarantines will go to Lackland (Texas) and Dobbins (Georgia) Air Force Bases.

 

 

Certainly, we can be sure that

 

The troops in those places all knowingly signed up to become the United States' great biohazard receptacle.

 

After all, they volunteered to suffer and die (for any stupid reason) when they put their uniforms on.

 

Didn't they?

 

 

And strategically speaking . . .

 

What makes more national security sense than ensuring that some of America's defense forces become ill?

 

 

The moral? — I really am hoping that we are living in a computer simulation

 

Accepting that evolutionary processes, or God, could produce such inane personal and societal behaviors — pains species-hopeful optimism.