Flint Michigan intensifies...
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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Where we're going, we don't need monitoring systems which would detect that there's lead in the water in Flint. We'll just get stunted kids.
For anyone who's curious about the endgame for this type of governmental system, I think it is "River Town" by Peter Hessler that talks about visiting a village where a huge number of people were clearly suffering from significant birth defects. The pollution had simply continued, unmonitored and unabated, for so long that it and its horrific impacts on human life had simply grown to the point of being detectable with the naked eye, part of the fabric of everyday life.
At some point, someone from the government figured out that he was in that village, and arrived, to kick him out, because it wasn't permitted to talk about it or for outsiders to see the reality.
The nature of human beings and their priorities and behaviors means that it takes specific and sustained effort to prevent that from becoming the system, effort which the US for all its flaws has historically made some significant level of. Well, until now. Welcome.