It’s the consequence of too much ease. The phrase “the calm before the storm” has always been an interesting one to me because it posits that storms are inevitable and periods of calm nothing but illusion. It doesn’t matter how much work you’ve put into a situation to create peace if the other shoe is destined to drop. And the more you live in that nihilistic headspace, the more you render the storm a self-fulfilling prophecy. You become driven by fear in the unknown until you become the very thing…
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