On Pride

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." - Proverbs 16:18 KJV

I have a vision. Bill de Blasio invites all of the homeless and "undocumented" to shelter in the NYC Subways, citing Climate Change, and the Shutdown, and Trump as reasons. The paying customers refuse to enter the subways and tens of thousands do not renew their monthly $121 Metrocards. The City implodes as businesses that can, especially in Finance, Media, and other professional services, relocate operations to New Jersey or elsewhere "For the duration." Many never return. This will initiate a cascading chain of disasters as all of the progress painfully made under Giuliani and Bloomberg unravels, with less of a prospect of a recovery.

We are not blessed with any special Divine Grace or Virtue inherent in our race or air or soil. We are in fact no better than anyone else, and only gifted with the wasting asset of what those who labored before have left us. Without constant and loving care there is no reason that New York City would not within a few years descend into the spiral of decay depopulation and violence that overwhelmed both Beirut and Detroit. They were both lovely cities, and they were both proud.