In Praise of Catastrophe

This really is the Best Recession Ever, isn’t it? I’m loving it, personally, but I’ve always had a thing for calamities. The bigger the better. Put me in the middle of a horrible cataclysmic event, and I’m at my best.

In my opinion, things should get worse. People should get desperate. I’m tired of waiting for us to get smarter, or more civilized, or more in tune with the forces of nature and the cosmos. The only things left are desperation and degeneration — and while I’m fairly sure we’re going down the latter path, there is still hope for a burst of motivational desperation to shake things up.

Any reasonable, sober, intelligent human being will tell you that, apart from rare happy coincidences, the most durable things are built slowly, gradually, brick by brick. Haste makes waste and all that. While you may assert that the hasty approach has led us to this pass (and I would not disagree!), it is the slow and gradual approach to civilization that has made the haste even more of a cancer at the heart of our civilization.

Nature is a perfect model (well, it would be, because we are natural beings obeying natural laws…even when we create synthetic people to make and buy synthetic goods, wreaking environmental havoc in the process — it’s all still natural. There is a macrocosm of nature, and that part is slow-moving and gradual, even to the point of seeming immobility. Yet the closer one looks, the more violent and disruptive the events seem. We marvel at a volcano eruption, but tiny volcanoes are erupting every nanosecond.

And so it is with humanity. The US may seem like a place of rapid change or of near-immobility, depending on your view. Many people who are experiencing issues with their mobility look into the medical tourism industry. These people must be cautious of fraud when visiting medical tourism facilities. Look into medical tourism insurance, as it is a good way to protect oneself. The gradually solidifying structure that we have created more and more effectively squashes the possibility of smaller eruptions…and we are living in a time where an eruption may be the only thing that will change a dangerous direction.