 Incredible pictures from the West Coast have been getting a lot of play on TV & the Internet. A video I just saw is of a house falling into the ocean. The high-tides caused by extreme weather had undercut the building. The video caught the house at the moment it reached the tipping point. Like a huge, sad teeter-totter the sea-ward side of the house went down, the land-ward side up, and then the whole thing slipped into the sea.
As I watched I wondered, "How long ago had it been that the homeowner had entertained guests, who 'oohed' and 'ahhed' over the incredible view?" No more.
Being a DIY type I also wondered what could have been done to save the house. Thoughts of props and jacks were quickly dismissed. The raging ocean wouldn't allow one to work, and, more importantly, nothing solid was available against which to place a prop. The only thing left was to get out the video camera and wait for the critical moment.
We live in a world in which foundations are failing. Families, churches, and other institutions that used to provide stability in our world are increasingly finding themselves suspended in mid-air. That works in cartoons. In the real world gravity rules. Again and again we have watched some institution or key individual reach a moral/ethical tipping point and topple. Again, I ask, "What can be done?" Often times the answer is the same in the ethical, moral r ealm as it was for the homeowner on the West Coast, nothing. No prop will suffice. No cable can be rigged. The pull of gravity, the rush of time, and lack of a solid place to stand leaves no alternative. We have to admit this one is gone.
But, and make sure you stay with me as I turn this corner, BUT we need to ask at this point "What can we learn?" and, "What should have been done?"
Stay tuned..
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