Pseudo insightful babble that doesn’t make sense
The worst thing, to me, about the tsunami is that it has hit my city, and probably, forever changed the beaches I love. Madras to me always was this impregnable fortress (btw – is a fortress the feminine gender of a fort? Just wonderin’ ?) that could never be affected by “natural calamities” – earthquakes might rumble and roll, but nothing could shake Madras. Cyclones, always threatening to hit us, chose Nellore or Cuddalore to land up at.
But a tsunami changed all of that.
In a certain sense, I am rather glad that a Tsunami happened in Madras. In that same sense, I am thankful for all natural calamities, the bigger they are, the better. For, even though the death toll is high, it lets the Human species advance a bit further. It’s calamities like these that keep us humans on the toes, driving us forward to better understand nature, and thus, better evolve. And that can only be for the better.
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January 5th, 2005 - 08:43
Chandru, I feel if you have had atleast one victim know to you, this post wouldn’t be appearing here. Don’t you agree with that ?
I seriously think you are readin that bill bryson’s book that chenthil was talking because what you are mentioning here is nothing but the basis of human history. It’s only by calamities and natural disasters men understood nature and started to survive the disaster. Right ?
January 5th, 2005 - 09:17
Guru, the first point you made is absolutely right, but I did say the same thing a few days back. To those not personally affected, this disaster is a source of a morbid pride.
I agree that it is heartless of me to say that, and very dense, but this is, in my own way, how I cope with disasters – I make jokes of it, or draw conclusions.
And no, I haven’t read Bill Bryson’s book yet. And I am not theorising based on that book. I do feel that such unexpected disasters help us in a roundabout way, cause they instill in us a drive to explain the unexplained, and leads to the development of science.