Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Crisis? What Crisis?


Everything today, and I mean everything, is in crisis.

If you don't believe everything is in crisis, you're a crisis-denier. That's a crisis.

All crises are treated with more money. And there's too much money in the system, which is a crisis.

Except in those areas where we have little crisis management, a crisis in itself.

When something isn't perceived as a crisis, we are being complacent. A non-crisis in some area can be confused with something that is working well, or it could mean people are happy. But it's really a complacency crisis.

The failure to anticipate crises is at a crisis point. All due to the complacency crisis.

I recently read an article which argued that stress is at an all-time high and at a crisis point.

I presume that particular writer wasn't aware of another article I read, which stated that people these days might be getting too happy, with all this emphasis on self-fulfilment, relaxing and enjoying life. A crisis of relaxation.

And those two articles are different than a further article I read, which informed me that people are meditating too much and may not be prepared to meet life's greater challenges. A crisis of over-satisfaction.

Some time in the past, when everything was better, we had a crisis of non-crises. A crisis of nostalgia.

When things are better, it's a crisis because they might stop being better. Or, they could be even better than better. Or perfect. Or they could get worse, much worse, or worse than worse.

When things are worse, it's a crisis because they aren't better, or getting better, or better than better. Or perfect.

All things are getting worse – a crisis; getting better – a crisis; or staying the same – a crisis.

It just makes me want to CRYsis.