Do We Live In an Insane World? As Compared to When? Surely, an Unpredictable One.

This is going to be fairly short.

"A Fool can predict the future as well as any Wise Man."

Keep that in mind, first.

Everyone all throughout history always thought there was something unique and potentially Apocalyptic for the age they lived in.

"O tempora, O Mores!" and all that.

I feel this comes from that fact that we live with a strange condition as humans: basically, we are all cut from the same cloth, but every individual human life IS unique.

And at times the Apocalypse DOES come for some people.

It came for the Armenians, for the Jews of Europe, for Cambodians, for many people who were sitting ducks for AIDS (  and usually refused to face this fact),
and likewise is rampaging its way through the ranks of cigarette smokers.

Real life is always tenuous and great artists have always used this, especially novelists. Moments of great joy are often followed by horrible crisis in many famous books, stage works, operas, etc.

Catastrophes are often like earthquakes that come in unexpected places, like the latest one in Nepal. Coming events do NOT always cast their shadows even though they USUALLY do.

In fact, it was the great Lisbon earthquake that came out of nowhere that helped inspire Voltaire's great ironic work "Candide" and its mocking of the Germanic Philosophic view that " This is the best of all possible Worlds."

We are also, I believe, seeing the maybe irreversible effects of carbon emissions on the Earth's atmosphere being played out with Climate Change, which is feeding into the crisis about Water  and weather disasters in general.

However, cooler heads must prevail. Giving into panic is like dwelling too much on the facts such as we might all die of an aneurysm unexpectedly at any given moment ( when you start to dwell on the disasters that MIGHT befall you, usually without warning, you will run screaming from the room!)

In the meantime, I suggest you all take advantage of Geri Weis-Corbley's Great Idea of a Good News Network, which I am posting next.

Larry Kreger