Natural Disaster
unlike the stories of dystopian wastelands research shows following natural disasters in times of real crisis we're more likely to find aid from our brothers and sisters than their blades at our throats and rapes in our homes the world shows in times of natural disaster we're more likely to expose the best in us than the worst we're far more likely to help than to harm the already harmed it's enough to give us hope that maybe we're not what we far too often appear to be we are creatures of nature so the disasters of our civilizations are perhaps natural too like the earthquake demolishing a city our civilizations settling at rock bottom our disasters attritive instead of acute a tortuous prolonged descent a slow poisoning of our well driving us mad over decades rather than overnight the natural disaster of a civilization a slow degeneration into unnecessary military massacres genocides and holocausts nuclear decimation and ethnic cleansings a slow chronic disease of festering metastasizing hate fearmongering political and religious polarization tribalism radicalism irrationality and violence rock bottom as a civilization through cruelty and torment the natural disaster of our civilization the necessary preamble of destruction decay dehumanization before the phoenix of our humanity can ever arise nature calls with floods and fires beckoning us to be our best yet man's disasters far less dramatic far more subtle in their decline degenerating us bit by bit till we've tortured and tormented enough too much shamed by our cruelty and stupidity that maybe it'll call upon our humanity like nature's earthquakes tornados volcanos tsunamis and landslides to finally fix for a while the calamity we've created we are after all creatures of duality capable in great things following the disaster and capable of great horrors and evil in creating it
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