Here is one example of the resonance of Warner’s observation about the weather: During the Vietnam War era, the phrase was adopted to create a pointed variant: “Everybody talks about the draft, but nobody does anything about it.”
Around the same time, Bob Dylan, in his political protest phase, built upon it even more creatively with this lyric: “It doesn’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
That phrase was soon adopted by the political underground group “The Weathermen”, who were indeed trying to do something about the weather, rather violently, hoping to change the way the wind blows.
More tomorrow.