The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.
Crises are harbingers of evolution.
Even boredom has its crises.
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.
Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.