As my brother, the smarter twin, explained to me when the news broke out about SARS back during the Bush War Sequel, that China is to blame for the breakout and danger. When I gave a sermon over Pesach I touched on how we live in a world of terrorism and that every public catastrophe is assumed lichatchila to be terrorism. I brought as examples SARS and Michael Jordan's retirement.
However, the real reason SARS has spread is not terrorism but totalitarianism. China, being very very way oh man evil, suppressed information about the outbreak and denied help to its citizenry. Why? Because of the sicko psychology and sociology of totalitarian leadership. Somehow having a contagion roaming loose in your country is an embarrassing fact. We in the West will see China as a bunch of backward losers if they have a respiratory illness. Well, news to the Chinese: we already think you're losers because you are communists and you look like bigger losers when you do something this stupid.
It proves, yet again, that the worst scourge on humanity is low self-esteem. It led to Hitler. It led to SARS.
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
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