Sunday morning inconveniences..

Pranay Srinivasan
Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Its 69 and foggy on Sunday morning here in Los Angeles. Thats unusual.

People move to LA to enjoy the weather and endure the traffic. On weekends though, since we have clear roads the cloudy skies are God’s way of telling us we cannot have everything.

The weather in LA is probably just fog, no rain. Its still inconvenient for a Sunday.

Meanwhile 1500 miles away, Hurricane Harvey is devastating Texas. With rain and winds. We could have been more prepared for this catastrophe.. People went through Katrina, Sandy and 100s of climate change-driven natural disaster over the last 2 decades to realize this is not something “rare”…

..but prepping for natural disasters is something we can only do so much for.. because its “God’s will”.

Its almost as if we could have prepared better by equipping climate change scientists with research funds, disaster response teams with tools and funding, and states with emergency powers and weather tracking tools.

Just like Pinochet, Castro, Erdogan, Putin, Duterte, Assad and others before them have showed us that despots will seize power, consolidate it, and inflict tons of atrocities with impunity on anyone who challenges, criticizes and questions their authority..

…but suffering under authoritarian despots is something we can only do so much for.. because its the “People’s will”.

Its almost as if we could have prepared better… like casting our votes for someone more worthy of leading this country…

..like realizing that the effects of the devastation our ill-intentioned political “rebellion” has caused, has enabled the “swamp” to envelop the country…

.. like we are seeing man-made devastation of racism, segregation, supremacist recruitment and armed militia in Charlottesville, Arlington, Arizona, and other parts of middle America that is worse than hurricanes.

Of course all this is happening over 1500 miles away from LA. The marches, the protests, the saber-rattling, the pardons, the parades..

Of course none of that affects *my* day-to-day life and work here in LA. We’re all in harmony here. I’m a resident. I have a great team. I walk to work. I live thousands of miles away from all that. What could go wrong?

Hurricanes last for a few days and affect thousands of lives in a city / state.

Presidents last for 4 years with any luck and will affect 100s of millions of lives globally

Just like that, we will *fix this problem* by donating $100 to ACLU to fight for human rights, to the RED CROSS to fix natural disasters.

Yep, that should do it.

Meanwhile, I just close the patio door and wish the fog would go away.

Such an inconvenience.

utekkare,

Pranay

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