This morning I noticed a link at Instapundit linking the Appalachian floods and the Mandate of Heaven. Of course! Experts agree that Yellow River floods have frequently marked the end of a dynasty in China because the flood showed that the emperor who ruled Tianxia (天下; "all under heaven") had lost the Mandate of Heaven. The experts at Google Search AI agree:
Yellow River floods have contributed to the end of multiple dynasties in China, including the Yuan, Northern Song, and Western Han dynasties.
That’s because, when things start to go wrong, humans realize that God is not mocked by corrupt incompetent rulers. Secular westerners prefer to talk instead about the verdict of history.
How many Yellow River floods were there, overall? About 22 in the last 1,000 years. The last flood mentioned was the 1958 flood. Do you think that flood was a divine judgment on Mao Zedong and his catastrophic Great Leap Forward that began in 1958 and ended in famine?
Let’s go closer to home. Wiki lists 25 Mississippi River floods for the last 500 years. What happened before that? Experts agree that the First Nation records for the previous 20,000 years were destroyed by a robber band of white settler-colonialists in 1619. But I........