Jay, I am not sure just how much "fun" will be involved. Some things are specifically not fun, though in a weird way, in retrospect, if surviving certain trials and tribulations, they can be almost perversely called "fun". Such as getting back from the top of K2 unscathed or returning or surviving some other dramatic events because of one's own efforts.
I would have trouble finding "fun" in the results of the tsunami. Even surviving it was probably not fun. Even if making a remarkably talented escape. One would certainly feel very alive though, especially while escaping, which can sometimes be more like fun than sitting around the cubicle writing a bit more code to buy another carton of booze.
<Odd thing about the inevitable> Ah, the inevitable. It's such a shame and so challenging that we only know what was inevitable AFTER it happens. Right up until the transition to the present, we really don't know what is inevitable [usually].
I thought you'd like that: nihilistic apolitical anomie. Trips nicely off the keyboard. Being one of 6 billion, with an enormous wild world continuously confronting us in addition to that surging tsunami of humanity, it's tempting to simply accept such a philosophy and go helplessly with the flow. I've never felt that we are so impotent, especially as soon as an idea strikes a chord, finds a harmonic, and reverberates into reality and the problems just melt away.
As you say, we will see.
Mqurice |
