See here for an update on the Itaewon situation via ROKDrop. My French buddy Dominique wrote to say he'd heard the "dramatic" news coming out of Korea. I don't know... fundamentally, I think this whole thing comes down to human stupidity. People in crowds are pretty dumb, and stupid behaviors that start at one end of a crowd can easily propagate all the way to the other end, as apparently happened in this case: the crowd was on a slope; people at the top of the slope started shoving; people lower down began shoving and falling, and that's how things ended up in a crush. The whole thing could have been avoided had people been just a tad less bovine. (Hell, even bovines know better!) Normally, I try my best to avoid crowds; it's an introverted reflex. But sometimes, crowds are unavoidable, and you just have to hope you're not with the wrong crowd.
Wanna live longer and more happily? Eat right, exercise your body and brain, don't engage in stupid vices, and stay away from most of humanity.
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"Wanna live longer and more happily? Eat right, exercise your body and brain, don't engage in stupid vices, and stay away from most of humanity."
Well, three out of four ain't bad.
"Three out of four ain't bad." Wasn't that a Meat Loaf song?
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