Posted on 02/28/2009 7:49:58 AM PST by Publius
Just so!
All the above posts were interesting. One additional thought about the calendar-
It's significant that the calendar is mounted on the skyscraper, a product of mans effort. In a way, it's being claimed by the looters. Analogous to planting a flag on a mountain peak.
Excellent! I hadn’t thought of that.
I am glad only one chapter per week. Got busy at work and now in catch up mode re-reading AS!
I’ve been thinking about your response about shrugging. Like you, I believe AS is not to be taken literally, but is an illustration of ideas. When you see the markets collapsing as they have been, you have to think why. When you see the price of hard commodities like gold and silver rising, you know what is happening. The traders are moving their money to something solid and tangible. I’m not an expert on economics, but I know you don’t chase good money after bad. A few of those guys on the trading floors have probably read AS, and they are reacting.
So we all have to look at our individual situation an evaluate what is the appropriate action.
Mister Publius! Please add me to your ping list for the book club. I’m all caught up on the threads and am just a little ahead in the book.
Great discussion happening.
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I'm playing catch up because I had some things going on when the reading began, and I'm going through these threads as I progress.
But I had to stop and comment about "the slide" because of my personal involvement in the rebuilding project. It was a huge undertaking and many contractors had crews working 24/7 at the site for the better part of a year in all kinds of weather. It was so big a project it actually had a significant positive impact on the heavy construction segment of the Northwest's economy, delaying the effect of the current recession here, adding millions to the gross sales in 2008 for several major businesses in Oregon and Washington. Indeed, work goes on in that project to this day, reshaping and stabilizing the mountainside to prevent a repeat event. In the peak of the work I was sending a truckload of equipment parts to the project every day and was hunting down and ordering extra product from all over the world to maintain the fleet. But it was almost the only work my guys and I had for the first half of 2008.
You guys made the fictional Atlantic Southern look like a bunch of amateurs.
Seems like a lot to spend most of a year cleaning up half a mile of track, but it had the side of a mountain on it. And every time a swath was cut through the debris, more would fall in from uphill to fill the gap, and that continued until the whole landslide, close to a square mile, was hauled away. Then terraces had to be cut and retaining walls built, and replacement soil and vegetation put in place before the next wet season began in earnest.
And in all that nobody was seriously hurt, one pickup truck was wrecked, and one small unoccupied utility vehicle was crushed by a falling boulder during a blasting operation. Good fun for the crew on site though, since both wrecked rigs were the personal rides for the owner of the main contractor, they got to yuk it up over those events without guilt.
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