Just a reminder that just because someone loses their head every time something doesn't make them happy, it's not a "crisis" it's just an immature person having a temper tantrum.
Or, as we used to say, "If every thing is a crisis, nothing is a crisis."
Or perhaps: “When everything is a crisis and a scandal, the end result is that nothing is.”
Interesting article from Foreign Policy by Eliah Bures:
The law of crisis is that crisis-talk fuels itself: Every time a choice is pitched as life-or-death, or an institution is pronounced “in crisis,” panic and partisanship and zero-sum thinking gain ground. Use of crisis mirrors your ideological commitments. If you want to raise the temperature, then breathlessly framing your cause as a crisis will do the trick. Crisis-talk is the gas pedal, not the brakes.
Eric Hoffer in his book, The Temper of Our Time described it as a "time of juveniles."
The significant point is that juvenilization inevitably results in some degree of primitivization. We are up against the great paradox of the twentieth century: namely, that breakneck technological advance has gone hand in hand with a return to tribalism, charismatic leader, medicine men, credulity, and tribal wars. p22.
I leave it you to judge whether Mr. Hoffer was describing our times.
As for me, I'm working on my stoicism.
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