In Britain in the sixties Mrs Thatcher persuaded vast numbers of people to buy their own homes. However, when you have a mortgage you are just duped into thinking you own your house. The bank owns it and if you hit monetary difficulties you can lose your house and have nothing to show for your hard work. Also you can only afford the mortgage if both partners work. This necessitates paying for a nursery or child minder and means that your family is fragmented. Your children deserve to have the full attention of their mother, but "owning" a house robs them of this. No wonder our society is in a mess when our families are being fragmented in this way. Let's give a cheer for home schoolers who do their best to build their families strongly, which leads to a strong society.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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