"The plague took about five thousand as promised, fear took millions and billions through paranoia." There is a lot I do get, and a lot that I do not get. When panic sets in for many, I get that. So, here is the nature of survival in a nut shell or short, simple format: Courage. If we face life with it, we are better off, even if we do die or whatever may happen bad or good (in that order). Even Viktor Frankl said that one with his Logotherapy trainings, as well as most self-development people, speakers and all of that.
So, I really start this article with a corollary saying: "Courage makes survivors ultimately." I understand that courage comes from genuinely and soberly understanding what needs and wants (in that order) to be faced in life and existence, not avoiding it in a paranoid or blindly fearful way. Paranoid preparation without full understanding is the ultimate "castle in the sand that washes to the sea" to speak in the terms of old Jimi Hendrix songs that make too much sense to the left or rational brain of a human being. What I mean is, paranoia and fear ultimately accomplish nothing but lessening chances of rational survival and actually increasing the chances of irrational death.
Here is what I mean by the above increase of the chances of irrational death: In the senseless rush and survival panic, you ultimately in that panic end up "a sheep going blindly off the cliff with the other sheep". My point is, think for moment and do not follow the crowd of people in a panic. Sure, I could make it more complex and fearful. What is the point to that? We have to think for ourselves creatively and courageously if we want to survive genuinely and rationally. What is the whole point of Viktor Frankl, Adam Smith (A genuine supply and demand rational economist) and Ayn Rand philosophies other than this fact anyway if you read everything they write. Plato, Immanuel Kant, John Maynard Keynes and the hereafter are not factors for the here and now, they basically say "In the long run we are all dead, and we will be herded into the hereafter anyway, so forget the here and now." Some may say a fearful "Yeah, right!?" or "No!" Know the reality though, if we want to rationally survive, reality has to be considered always in a rationally creative way, we cannot follow the crowd, the herd or fear reality and recoil at it all. We must rationally look at the facts and then act on them always. So, I end with a simple Thomas Paine quote that is also a title of a treatise he wrote: "Common sense".
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