Present day disasters around the world
are at least as big, and maybe far bigger,
than they have been in the last few decades.
Popular Capitalism makes sure of that.
But in 2023 the popular press of my country
no longer reports disasters as being 'Biblical' in scale.
I am unsure about how to understand this.
Is it that the press are looking for
a more secular adjectives of scale
to describe the latest disasters,
to chase the latest linguistic
and social/religious trends?
Or is it that the Biblical scale disasters
that the press described in the past
seemed back then to be more solvable
than present day disasters, for which
only terms which express agnosticism
towards their solvability are apt to describe them?
If you have any answers to these questions
then please ignore the press, and apply them
to the small battered blue planet you are on right now.
Life, including recovery from disasters,
is more about action than language...
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