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Look no further than the nose on your face

Look no further than the nose on your face... for Mutualism among *****sapiens long thought to be a pipe dream case in point sited by a couple of recent purportedly natural events possibly exacerbated courtesy global warming namely present conflagrations include veritable towering inferno - (sharing merest premise with Hollywood film by the same name, the highest-grossing Classic 1970s disaster movie about a fire that breaks out in a state-of-the-art San Francisco high-rise building during the opening ceremony attended by a host of A-list guests: An overworked fire chief (charging full force like Minnesota Vikings - or feel free to substitute your own football team) and the building's architect must cooperate in the struggle to save lives and subdue panic while a corrupt, cost-cutting contractor tries to evade responsibility for the disaster helped establish the modern blockbuster) dwarfed by devastating southern California, or the impacts from Hurricanes Helene and Milton both particularly destructive, causing more than $100 billion in combined damage across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia over a two-week period from late-September into early October), where trials by fire and water respectively witnessed linkedin collective effort that spread kudzu like attempted delivering relief, no matter Federal disaster workers paused and then changed some of their hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina, including abandoning door-to-door visits, after receiving threats that they could be targeted by a militia, officials said, as the government response to Helene targeted by runaway disinformation. Impossible mission to duplicate or even barely approximate wrenching cataclysms wrought by mother nature, no matter death defying scenes movies present quite realistic, especially seen on the big screen incorporating surround sound, where more or less clear cut protagonists and antagonists confront each other, whereby the former (more times that not in that make believe world) where actors and actresses present convincing drama) and win the day quite unlike reality, when havoc ferociously strikes indiscriminately rich or poor alike. I always marvel at the surge of voluntary brother and sisterhood (personhood generally) that encompasses (or follows) a figurative groundswell, (particularly when the phenomenon in question constitutes a natural event say aftermath of meteorological storm in question, namely a tsunami) pitting dearth of humanitarian intervention, where terrorist act and violent crimes grist for the tabloid or social media mill give the impression that *****sapiens' pith and marrow chock full of animalistic, atavistic, cannibalistic, fascistic, hedonistic, misogynistic, et cetera predilections, thus believing challenging the bedrock belief in inherent goodness of man/woman kind as the exception rather than the rule and proving the potential exists, whereby idealistic opportunistic government (of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth” spoken at Gettysburg), but these words apply as well to the countless soldiers that died for the cause of democracy in the following 160 years, yet not just highlighting slain combatants also extending by proxy to vicious acts of homicide, physical sexual abuse, plus verbal castigation as experienced by the writer of these words (ofttimes in his younger days deemed, hashtagged, peppered, targeted, et cetera as ideal scapegoat) pummeled courtesy nasty, short and brutish louts, who heaved, lobbed, threatened, et cetera me with expletive laced brickbats, where bullies evinced sympathy for the devil.

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