"This is the excellent foppery of the world" is a line from King Lear by William Shakespeare. It is spoken by Edmund in the play's second scene. The line is a metaphor that describes how people blame bad luck on external forces, like the sun, moon, and stars, instead of taking responsibility for their own actions.
More of the line: “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity ... ..."
- Source online
(btw: dear Gmail tried hard to complain about grammar in above writing by the Bard ;-).
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I was stunned and saddened by the current wildfire situation in LA area, and felt so helpless when I saw this in LA Times:
"As crews have fought the fast-spreading fires across the Los Angeles area, they have repeatedly been hampered by low water pressure and fire hydrants that have gone dry. These problems have exposed what experts say are vulnerabilities in city water supply systems not built for wildfires on this scale.
'The system has never been designed to fight a wildfire that then envelops a community,' said a former manager of LA Department of Water and Power in an interview with The Times."
I also felt that we humans have been too busy focusing on our own business, we forgot Mother Nature and the damage we have done to her.
Sigh ... ...
Anyway, wish you all a peaceful Friday!
