Along the way, there will be chaos, and infuriating reports of corruption and ineptitude; there will be storms of blame, but we get up and collect ourselves.
As the Firestone tire recall gives rise to a national storm of fear and blame, I fall into a funk of deja vu.
Rubin has blamed a "perfect storm" of economic factors, as has Sam Zell, the magnate who bought and maimed the Tribune newspapers in a highly leveraged financial stunt that led to a bankruptcy filing last week.
It blamed "the perfect storm of negative influences the automotive industry faces in the country including the sustained strength of the Australian dollar, high cost of production, small domestic market and arguably the most competitive and fragmented auto market in the world".
The war plan was unfavorably compared with the overkill of Desert Storm, and blamed for troops' being susceptible to ambush and short of supplies.
It's true, of course, that such businesses can't be blamed for the perfect storm of gentrification and austerity currently dismantling low-income neighbourhoods.
The official report on the downing of the Malaysian airliner, due next month, will almost certainly blame the rebels, and provoke a storm of further criticism of Russia.
A storm of yellow dust darkens the skies above Beijing, an increasingly familiar phenomenon blamed on the disappearance of Asian forests.
The storm was blamed for dozens of traffic accidents.
At the same time — and pretty much at the height of a storm of publicity around the data misuse scandal — Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections announced insolvency proceedings, blaming what they described as "unfairly negative media coverage".
