Don’t be insecure
Solid as a rock. If you are anything like me, you know that concrete is like rock, in the same way that white wine is like water; like is not the same as same. Or some such rule. Semantically speaking of course. If you’ve ever run into a concrete wall, it probably seemed like you had hit a rock. The same sensation.
Which is why people around here are more and more perplexed by the flaws in our infrastructure. Highway overpasses that fall down. Roadways that break open. Buildings that collapse; bridges; etc. Today, the Montreal subway system had to be closed over one of its busiest sections when the roof cracked because the street above had, well, cracked. Nothing is as solid as we believed.
I don’t want to be like Henny Penny, but perhaps our sky is falling. We’ve allowed our belief in the wonder of concrete to dazzle us. It may well be that we’re about to enter a period of “don’t step on that crack, or you’ll break your own back”. We may have to rebuild a lot of roads, bridges, walls over the next few years, and something tells me we aren’t going to like the bill at the end of our meal.
But, why worry? As long as the collapsing structure doesn’t hit you on the way down, life is fine. Right.
