DEA Warns of Fentanyl “Mass-Overdose Events”
“Last year, the United States suffered more fentanyl-related deaths than gun-related and auto-related deaths combined.”
In life, as in society, there are always problems.
“There are no solutions, only tradeoffs,” as a wise man once said, and it’s true. The Law of Unintended Consequences is immutable and everything has consequences. Even doing the right thing has consequences; especially doing the right thing.
But in society, as in life, it is frequently the obstacles you don’t see that get you in the end. There are dozen old adages, and we could always add a few more: “It’s the stone you don’t see that trips you.”
In David Burr Gerard’s seminal work of fiction, “The Epiphany Machine”, a magical tattoo machine reveals every person’s major stumbling block by tattooing it on their forearms.
Even then, in fiction, as in life, we don’t see the truth- we don’t want to. We don’t see the threat, we don’t sense the real danger until it’s too late. For whatever reason, other things are distracting us.
While the saber-toothed tiger crouches in the bushes ready to pounce, we are concerned about getting the grass seed down before the spring rains really start in earnest.