COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Showing posts with label China Earthquake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China Earthquake. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

China Suffers


"An arm of a victim is seen in the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province." - REUTERS

A telling picture from the devastation in China. Notice the hollow concrete block. Their is no reinforing steel bar. The core is open and clean. There appears to be one thin wire on the upper right. That is no way to build in a seismic zone. That missing rebar probably ended that life.