Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.
The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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