I’ve found comfort the last 10 years in looking back at historical comparisons of the last few hundred years in our history. The liklihood that I’ll survive a prolonged disruption of supply chains and civil unrest is of course quite low (I’m dead in 48 hours without meds) but knowing humans just… Become seething, mad monsters, for some reason, in cycles, produces a ritual-like soothing effect in me, like watching the passage of the seasons. Humans are emergent systems. When we get ourselves rile...