THE dramatic news of the winter storm disaster in Texas last week was appalling, to the say the least, but it also elicited a fair bit of schadenfreude, uncharitable though that sentiment may be. The calamity – which left nearly everyone in the entire state without electricity and water for several days – was as bad as it was because Texas is Texas: A big, stupid state with far more money and guns than sense, an embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger Effect on the scale of a massive civic entity.
There are good people in Texas, but as a collective, it is an arrogantly ignorant place with a deeply ingrained, fallacious belief in its own unique superiority. It deserves it every time it gets turkey-slapped by Mother Nature, which actually happens fairly often, and never seems to learn from it.
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