Life Is Going to Get Crazy
Life Is Going to Get Crazy Or maybe we're just realizing how crazy it always has been, meaning we'll be getting more in touch with the reality of things and, hence, more sane . . . DANIEL D As Dusk Descends upon Our Civilization, Life Is Going to Get Crazy Life is always crazy. What I mean by that is, Life necessarily entails the miraculous, given how finely tuned conditions need to be in order for it to arise in the first place. Life is always tentative and precarious, in a universe full of potentially lethal hazards. However, for the past few decades of Pax Americana , we’ve mostly been able to get away with being blissfully ignorant of all those existential threats. We’ve come to see Life as safe and predictable and maybe even a little boring. We’ve been ensconced in a comfortable cocoon of technological marvels and complex systems that reliably work as expected, where infant mortality rates are so low that our ruling class promotes birth control , and ...