Monday, June 28, 2010

'Black Dawn: The Next Pandemic'

Remember the swine flu? Here's a happy little disaster pseudo-documentary on influenza as a pandemic.

Just in case you don't have enough to worry about...

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4 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Depressing. Our society is so fragile in so many ways. It's like a drip sand castle a child makes @ the beach. You go higher and higher and then it all collapses because the whole structure is increasingly top heavy and so inter-connected that it starts to develop more and more weak pts. Look at the great Depression were suffering right now. The systemic weaknesses are growing with the aid of a disease or a EMP burst or an terrible OIL gusher or even Global warming. It's slowly rolling toward collapse and there doesn't appear to be anything to stop it. to b

6:11 PM
Jim Sande said...

Our lives are fragile. I hate to seem preachy so forgive me here. I'm not sure it can be any other way. The structural weaknesses in the cultural web are many. A friend of mine was saying that three people die every day just driving into Atlanta from an accident.

7:45 PM
Glynn Kalara said...

Yes, individually were always one heartbeat from opur maker this I know from experience. But, the whole society is growing more fragile even brittle as we go forward. Look at the enormous damage just one OIL well gusher is causing as an example. In other ways we are still robust but our rekliance on higher and higher forms of technology is not making us more robust as I pointed out in another post here. One 400 kiloton nuke 300 miles up over Chicago and it's game over for us. the EMP would fry our computer and high tech. based infrastructure in a few secs. the following chaos and collapse of our economy and our culture would be epic. 300 mil. people thrown back into the 15 the century without the skills or the machinery to survive in such a world. It would be an ugly ugly end.

10:34 PM
Jim Sande said...

There is a lot of duplicity in much of the social hardware. If something breaks down there are many others vying to take its place. That is one of the beauties of capitalism. But I hear you from the point of view of very specific vulnerabilities that can erase larger systems.

8:52 AM

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