9. Hello again, @akgungor_c continues from where he has left :) So, I tend to think of #disasters as systemic “radiographs”. I’m not sure when I first came up with this analogy but I usually associate this idea with my own experience as a search & rescue volunteer.
10. After all, looking around in a disaster-stricken zone, few people don't come to reflect on their own #vulnerability first, then, gradually, about the vulnerability of human societies to massive #disruptions.
11. The greater the impact, the thinner seems the protective bubble provided by our physical and social systems.
12. When an #acute event overloads our systems, it disrupts the “business as usual”,
affecting everything from our simple daily, routine activities as individuals to complex, collective processes.
affecting everything from our simple daily, routine activities as individuals to complex, collective processes.
13. These moments of temporary #paralysis are a sort of “moment of truth”, in the sense that they reveal -undeniably- not only the #vulnerabilities but also point out the social, economic, political, cultural factors underlying them.
14. This relatively short timeframe may turn into a period where all the usual controls over the expression can be bypassed due to the temporary paralysis induced by the catastrophe.
15. These are the moments where a questioning about the loss (especially the human toll) may lead to a larger #public #debate on the way(s) a community/society chooses to live, to be organized, to interact with its own environment… and what/how things could be different.
16. And this is where our X-ray picture starts to take shape, allowing us to observe and analyze what could otherwise stay under our radars.
17. The public debate mentioned above is a particularly rich source for this purpose, so I’ll continue tomorrow by elaborating on that one. Thanks for reading, see you soon.
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