How Should The East Coast Prepare for the Inevitable

+ Until we move from binary to triadic thinking from pragmatism to pragmaticism from proselytizing to universalism we will be doomed to make the wrong decisions and celebrate them as master achievements Thus Manhattan contemplates building big flood blockades that will protect Wall Street and inundate Brooklyn or some such silliness + The brutal truth is that we are already doomed to an ongoing deluge and will  be doomed to the current painful agonies until we answer affirmative to the following proposition The solution to flooding and tidal inundation is to either create or move to higher ground and build our dwellings there + The pragmaticist obligation is to stop lavishing attention on the sexy notion  of  diverting future tidal inundations with monstrous blockades (the binary way) and instead to assume that any level above an anticipated inundation level is the level at which it is safe to create places to be occupied by children and women and men and pets From this premise many fine premises can be elaborated + IMAGE Top First is the Sign of Unity in Diversity Second is the cold reality of our penchant for inundation Third is the happy intended result of a creative collision of First and Second issuing in specific new solutions to the problem of higher ground  Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store