A Question of Blame When Societies Fall
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Who or what is to blame when a once-powerful society collapses?
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Humans have a tendency to believe what they want to believe. So it was little wonder that when the &quot;Orange Revolution&quot; broke out in the ex-Soviet republic of Ukraine in late November, many Americans
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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But problems arise when it comes time to pin down those responsible for climate change.
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The collapse of SunRocket, an Internet telephone company that went out of business without warning, raises questions about what responsibility such companies have to their customers.
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The political blame game over Bhuttoâs assassination and rising ethnic tensions raise worries about the fragility of the countryâs federal structure.
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The things that kill us in IT center around being forced to work within the confines of legacy infrastructural decisions and processes, and more importantly, how any change that occurs (for good or bad reasons) will at best fix one tactical issue, but that will more than likely cause other problems.  We hope the new problem will be better than the old, or at least will become someone else's issue.
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Lithuanians who lost savings when the USSR collapsed are due to get compensation.
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The spring of hope, and the winter of despair. These are the mixed emotions that enunciate the prevailing paradox of our present society.
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Is our mishandling of the environment to blame for  the well-documented increase in the frequency and  severity of hurricanes? The answer is unclear.
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History suggests that South Asia's tsunami tragedy could engender regional political fallout.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot:  A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects.
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A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandâjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americaâs schools. How to spot trouble before it opens fireâand the ongoing debate over blame for a cycle that just wonât stop.
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Not all of the Arctic thaw is caused by man. Nature plays a role, too, but that doesn't let us off the hook for the damage we've done.