Whistleblowing on Crises and Disasters

This is the excellent foppery of the world … we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence – Edmund, bastard son of Gloucester (Shakespeare, King Lear, 1 ii. 132 quoted in Wells and Taylor, 1987: 1239).