Niagra Falls Declares State of Emergency to Prepare for Total Solar Eclipse
(www.thegatewaypundit.com)
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I don't understand WTF is going on with this eclipse and everyone freaking the fuck out with their state of emergencies. I know what we think might happen. But these people don't believe what we believe. To the casual observer, it looks like they have lost their fucking minds. There is absolutely no logical reason for them to be doing this. It's like they literally think the sky is falling.
I.e., they have lost their fucking minds. In so many things, it is like there has been a cultural-wide amnesia of all knowledge. This is what happens when a primitive people have never seen nor heard of an eclipse. The sky will fall. Likewise, major accidents have also never happened before and seem to be a violation of the natural order of "nothing happens". Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Volcanic eruptions. Never before experienced in all history. But wait---no one reads history any more! "It is all lies."
You are right. There will probably be thousands upon thousands of idiots who are going to stare directly at the Sun when the eclipse is happening.
I truly don't understand that. Most people are sensibly averse to looking directly at the sun, but the warning is always given so long as I have been alive. One might suppose this could be relaxed once the eclipse is in progress and totality has been reached. I have been told that it is even dangerous to look at the sun at totality, but I can't credit it. The only thing you can see at that point is the corona, and the sky is brighter than that all the time, and we are in no danger from looking at the sky. "Look at it only through smoked glass." I have a hard enough time going out in broad daylight and being dazzled by the brightness.
Incidentally, there is a plot twist in the movie "The Four Feathers" (1939) where one of the characters (Ralph Richardson) goes blind in the desert from looking at the sun too much. (It is a great movie, worth watching.)
"This is what happens when a primitive people have never seen nor heard of an eclipse. The sky will fall."
Exactly what I have been thinking.