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At the tail end of an article, The New York Times admitted that Black Hawk pilot Rebecca Lobach, who crashed into an American Airlines plane in January, “failed to heed a directive from her co-pilot, an Army flight instructor, to change course.”
I wonder if rejecting directives was a character trait learned and practiced from a young age. I wonder how many times she may have disregarded her parents' instructions. Perhaps none, but the last act of her life was heedlessness. It killed everyone in her copter, and everyone on the airliner. All fell to their deaths.
Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commands, But a prating fool will fall.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
