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Depending on location, they will have between ten and thirty minutes to get out. That time line does not allow for finding a flashlight, tending to an earthquake injury, hesitating amid the ruins of a home, searching for loved ones, or being a Good Samaritan. “When that tsunami is coming, you run,” Jay Wilson, the chair of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (OSSPAC), says. “You protect yourself, you don’t turn around, you don’t go back to save anybody. You run for your life.”
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
newyorker.com
Approaching contemporary life-style trends through the lens of philosophical suicide, it becomes clear that, despite whatever lip service we might pay to the diktats of science, a goodly percentage of us still fall on our knees and perform the calisthenics of faith. Whether we bow before the altar of transhumanism, with its robotic promise of eternal life, or congregate in the house of wellness, with its grunting sect of CrossFitters, we are nevertheless embracing an ideology that supplies a certain framework of meaning.
The Two Faces of Suicide
Barrett Swanson
Look, I want to love this world as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive and know it.
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