1.02 - Inescapable Plus+ - The Rising Tide

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We dive headfirst (not literally, we hope) into the sewage catastrophe that turned the Potomac River into something closer to an open-air cesspit than a national landmark. How does this even happen in the shadow of power? We ask whether dangerous ideology, box-ticking bureaucracy, and DEI-driven decision making helped steer a preventable disaster straight into the water, or whether that’s too simple an explanation.

From there, we zoom out and head to South Africa, looking at striking before-and-after images of infrastructure decline and asking some uncomfortable questions about governance, maintenance, and what happens when systems stop being cared for. Is this purely ideological fallout, or are deeper cultural norms and genetic differences part of the equation? At the end of it all, we’re left confronting a bigger and more unsettling question about how easily the basic pillars of a society can crumble, and what a slow-motion collapse really looks like when no one is minding the foundations.

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Links

• Trump approves federal emergency declaration for Potomac River sewage spill | Washington DC | The Guardian
• The District's DEI hiring obsession led to largest wastewater spill in U.S. history | Washington Times
• Jorge Bonilla on X: "WATCH: NBC Nightly News has broken the seal on reporting the Pootomac Disaster.
• "DC Water's Manager David Gadis: "We had too many white men in charge" "The executives should reflect the city" DC just had the largest sewage spill in US history: 240 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 gallons in one month FLOODING the Potomac
• The once-affluent suburb in South Africa where sewage now floods the streets – BusinessTech
• 'A Tsunami of Human Waste': Half of South Africa's Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report - Circle of Blue
• Decolonization in Action - They Ruined my Country! - YouTube
• Jozi vs Jozi (@jozivsjozi) / X
• African Countries Can't Practice Maintenance - YouTube
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• The Shadow Of The Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski - Shan's Corner
• ‘Africa is a place you go to wait’ | by Henry Wismayer | Mission.org | Medium
• After Empire | Rhodesia, The Last Outpost of Colonialism in Africa
• Racial Differences in Morality and Abstract Thinking - American Renaissance
• Racism, Guilt, Self-Deceit & Self-Hatred: A Philosopher's Hard-Headed Look at the Dark Continent by Dr Gedaliah Braun on Apple Books
• Invisidon on X: "This woman wandered into raw sewage in South Africa. It gets on her face and she has no idea