I recently learned a valuable lesson. Do not, under any circumstances, Google “chaos theory,” especially at 2 a.m.

Aside from the PropertyCasualty360.com blog spot, I generally refrain from sharing personal musings or perusing those of others. Who has time to read that hodgepodge, let alone comment on said hodgepodge? Well, apparently I do.

While entering some last-minute revisions in the wee hours of the morning, I came across a blog post that charged that “humanity has failed the test of life” and “begs to be destroyed.” Uh, someone has a penchant for the dramatic. Surprisingly, the author did not list the multitude of embarrassing (and very human) shortcomings that immediately come to mind—such as hubris, thirst for power, brash consumerism, narcissism, chewing with one’s mouth open at a business dinner, lack of recycling, cutting off cars in traffic, and so on. Instead, he went down an intellectually treacherous path that essentially renders us silly humans—you know, including the mere mortals that read his hackneyed blog—responsible for the suffering, loss of life, and extensive property damage stemming from the disasters in Japan, amongst others.

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