(9axq of 11)
Kepheus is telling us to change our way of thinking and behavior. Separate ourselves from the suboptimal contradictory logic of our societies.It doesn't do anyone any good to keep lying every step of the way and not admitting everyone who is at fault and being cheerleaders for how “on the ball” America is and how good certain communities are and how all the best technology and practices are being used when clearly something was deficient in each of these areas many years before the Champlain South Surfside Florida building collapse.
1. Stop always trying to make America look good and treat incidents as anomalies rather than more of a norm of broken logic. In 2018, the FIU-Sweetwater UniversityCity Bridge collapsed in Florida approx 25 miles away.
2. Buildings don't have to collapse every year in order for great concern to exist.3. America has still not properly addressed flooding which happens frequently in the same locations.
4. Government regulations are not a substitute for natural sense.5. Buildings built near salt water and whose strength depends on concrete, should be inspected much sooner. Besides the buildings are being battered by strong winds.
6. The danger of water at the footings and garage should have been a concern. Water intrusion of any amount in places where water should not be, is always a serious problem whose source must be found and plugged and any damage fixed and allowed to dry out.7. There seems not to be a consolidation of information of everything related to each structure, something which is typical of the fragmented way of thinking and behaving in societies.
8. Feeling your building or house shake should cause concern. Building integrity also depends on balanced weight distribution of the structure and contents. Buildings moving can weaken connections at multiple points. We see what happens to knees and ankles when the balance point is just a little bit off and your weight is pressing on a knee or ankle. The weight of structures is constantly pressing down nonstop on each other, the foundation and the ground.Natural laws always apply no matter how big or small something is and no matter what form is used. We don't always need lawyers, doctors, engineers and so on to tell us something. We have the ability to understand if we trust natural laws. We can tell what's safe and what's not.
9. The 2018 engineering report was sufficient to cause alarm and immediate action, but it should have been more plain speaking. No one receiving a major deficiency report on their car, plane, ship or single family home would feel safe using it.
10. Because almost every news report includes someone saying buildings in America don't fall down, this bubble will be burst again, soon. Hell, two American built Boeing planes recently crashed due to a series of logical failures by Americans. Don't forget all those space shuttle preventable tragedies.11. People have to take personal responsibility for decisions regarding their own health and safety.
12. A major fault of logic is assuming it can't happen to you and then taking that position based on false evidences giving false senses of security, thus causing you to ignore warning signs and not break from groupthink group sink information processing.We have to recognize that our personal philosophy is like a building constructed of many pieces of logic, most of which are large blocks of logic we borrow from the society we trust to have thought things out for us. Any weak spot in our philosophy can cause collapse.
Same goes for each major institution in a nation. If any one of these are faulty, the whole nation can collapse. Clearly every nation with favored groups are in immediate need of evacuating the culture and starting over from a more solid foundation, construction practices and continuous review process.
13. Someone said, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”
14. I say, Americans, and societies worldwide, are running out of time to be careless and arrogant.