Humans...

We think we are so smart that we can modify the natural order of things and nothing will happen. We think we can defy the twelfth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew and be loved regardless.

So we create a harmattan in Manhattan, and we say: oh, it’s just climate change - serious troubles! Then we spend our whole existence trying to troubleshoot the same troubles that we created by doing all what God said we shouldn't. You see, Confucius is right: “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

Another thing: correcting one’s mistake doesn’t operate on autopilot; it requires hands-on. So the onus is on the one who committed the mistake to accept and make up for it. Otherwise, one may end up devoting a huge amount of one’s time trying to fix what the military calls: ‘SNAFU’ (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up) or ‘FUBAR’ (Fucked Up Beyond All Repair).