Before the Collapse
Before the Collapse Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches. This fate can befall a company, the stock market, or your house or town after a…
Specifikacia Before the Collapse
Before the Collapse
Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches. This fate can befall a company, the stock market, or your house or town after a natural disaster, and the metaphor extends to economies, governments, and even whole societies. Complicated structures like buildings or bridges are slow and laborious to build but, with a design flaw or enough explosive energy, take only seconds to collapse.
We step over what you will come to know as a "Seneca cliff", which is named after the ancient Roman philosopher, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who was the first to observe the ubiquitous truth that growth is slow but ruin is rapid. As we proceed blindly and incrementally in one direction or another, collapse often takes us by surprise. Modern science, like ancient philosophy, tell us that collapse is not a bug; it is a feature of the universe.
Understanding this