What if What We Saw Yesterday at the Capitol Is Us?

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01/7/21
John Stonestreet

In the introduction to his book The Content Trap, author Bharat Anand asks readers to consider what caused The Yellowstone Fires of 1988, which lasted for months and destroyed over 1.3 million acres of the world’s oldest, and one of our nation’s most treasured, national parks. The traditional story places the blame on a worker who dropped a single, still-lit cigarette. Anand disagrees.

The cigarette certainly triggered this fire, but a million cigarettes are dropped every single day. That year (likely even that day), other cigarettes and, for that matter, lightning strikes, fell in Yellowstone. Why did this one spark so much damage? Anand’s point has to do with the pre-existing conditions, which made something that is benign in most other circumstances, a trigger for incredible destruction.

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Sairanie

I understand the message in the introduction you mentioned - but what connection are you trying to make between that and the capitol riots? I feel a little lost haha

I think that what the writer was saying was that little fires are made on both sides of the political spectrum and that it was random which one of those "matches" made the situation we saw. It could have been any of them that caused a big fire.