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No Maui investigation into arson or electrical companies for criminal reasons for the fire

And now—Nothing to see folks, routine fire

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Hawaii Governor says state is NOT pursuing criminal probe into Maui wildfires that killed at least 111, as more victims are identifiedMaui officials identified three more victims as Melva Benjamin, 71, Virginia Dofa, 90, and Alfredo Galinato, 79Some of those who perished lived in a senior living complex and may have chosen not to evacuate after authorities said the fires were '100% contained'Hawaii governor Josh Green has ordered an investigation into the fires and the response, but said it is 'not criminal' no investigation into arson or electrical companies for criminal reasons for the fireHawaii Governor Josh Green has ordered the state's attorney general, Anne Lopez, to perform a 'comprehensive review' of what caused the fire and the subsequent response, including claims that there were not adequate warnings.But he has since said the probe is 'not a criminal investigation in any way'.

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Guardini rightly treats modernity as less of an “age” and more as an idea, or distillation of ideas, that shapes and misshapes man according to the ascendant mundane preoccupations that are prevalent at the time. We have become accustomed to thinking unquestionably that modernity is as good as mother’s milk; that it is by definition a good, and that any force (reaction) or idea (conservatism) that impedes modernity is no different than poisoning mother’s milk. Guardini is not a sentimentalist, calling for some return to Eden. But he is more than mindful that modernity’s fascination with its own advent deserves more questioning than it has received thus far. He is one in this interrogation with Christopher Lasch (The True and Only Heaven, Progress and Its Critics), and demonstrates some of the poetic insight of a T.S. Eliot.

Of course the sanguine view of modernity is testimony to the propagandist’s success in establishing modernity as the end of history in which “progress” was trying to assert itself against the dark forces of religious and philosophical repression. Hence the Greeks are not only classified as “ancient” but also as “archaic,” which is not a time-line judgment, but a moral indictment. Both seem to suggest that which is worn out, spent, or merely quaint. The “Middle Ages” conveys a transitional phase preparatory to the era of light and progress. This is more clearly implied in the chronological epithet, “Dark Age,” to elicit a reaction against the superstition of religion, which inhibited the growth of science whose purpose is the “relief of man’s estate” (Francis Bacon). That these sciences have been used to push man to the brink of a new “dark age” only confirms the fear of the romantic poets, that the tree of science kills the tree of life. But it also confirms the fear of the “ancients” who warned us about spiritual disorder in the first place.

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