Hackers tapped a few keys and half the East Coast lost its mind. Cars lined up for gas like bread queues in a war zone. People filled plastic bags with fuel — yes, plastic bags. Civilization, brought low not by nukes, not by invasion, but by ransomware and stupidity.
The lesson should be about infrastructure, security, resilience. Instead it’s about how quickly Americans can stage a crisis out of inconvenience. When history writes this chapter, it won’t be “The Great Hack.” It’ll be “The Week of Idiots with Trash Bags.”