One of the core tenets of our existence is that there is a tomorrow. No, I am not getting philosophical, just describing the assumption built into the world we live in.

Economies, governments, businesses, services, everything we use and need for our day to day life rely on the assumption that tomorrow not only exists but will be as predictable as yesterday and today.

Our food, our water, our energy, depend on multiple interactions that support the complex infrastructure of our society so when you start your day you can turn on the light, you can open a working fridge full of edible food, have your morning shower, make toast, and go to work.

Now if the power is out, if the roads are cut, if your workplace has been damaged by a disaster, what do you do?

If it happens once, you will endure, you will figure things out, your power will be restored, your workplace will be repaired, life will go on.

And if it happens a second time, same, hopefully. But a third, a fourth? What happens if things don’t get restored, if food supply networks are seriously damaged, if power infrastructure takes weeks to repair, if the multiple ways you are kept comfortable and supported in your life start to fail? What then?

What if a government decides to act in some way, destabilising another country, that is part of a food supply network that disrupts the global food chain in ways no one has imagined? What if the ripples of an arrogant government expand outward in ways that change the way of living for billions that can never be changed back?

Once you have burnt down the forest, how long does it take to grow back? If ever?

The world you live in, the world you grew up in, for most people, was stable, consistent, reliable, in ways you never had to think about, never had to concern yourself with.

But what if that stops. What if the rich and powerful, in their hubris born of their success in their specific field, think they can rule the world, because its all so simple, all so basic. You just do this and everything changes.

Everything changes alright. The complex mechanisms of our stable world are in many ways more delicate than the finest Swiss watch, a precise mechanism designed with few tolerances outside its specific function, that one good knock can damage its levers and gears, so that the time we are in, is no longer the time we think it is.

The Stable World we live in, is far more complex and convoluted than you could possibly imagine. And anyone telling you otherwise, is more often than not, trying to sell you something.

And often, what they are trying to sell you, is as worthless as their comprehension of how the world actually works.

Marissa Klotzbucher  - Thoughts and Comments for public consumption