I once knew a bloke who owned a gym with a swimming pool in the basement. He was a crazy bloke. He used to muck around with strobe lights in his gym and he would dance around juggling spinning dumbbells. He used to call it playing with air.
One day the silly bastard got a long bar and put a weight in the middle and another two weights at the ends and started to dance around spinning it. He adjusted the strobe lights so that they were in tune with the big spinning weights. It was pretty mesmerising, everybody just watched and didn’t do much about it.
But suddenly it smashed through the wall into the electrical system and created a bloody fire so the whole place went up in flames and all the weights just went flying down through the floor into the swimming pool and made a huge splash so the whole place was burning and flooding and he lost everything! He went into shock, went berserk, and died of starvation!
It actually reminds me of climate change, people just watching mesmerised and not doing much. Even the way carbon dioxide spins up with a particular infrared frequency and rips through the atmosphere creating havoc.
The moral of the story is don’t get fossilised when you are watching some fuel playing with fire.
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