Maybe it's like violent crime: it seems as if there are more earthquakes because there is more reporting on them. A hundred years ago, a devastating earthquake half way around the world would have been a few paragraphs in the newspaper.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > >> The tsunami's, floods and earthquakes of recent years would fit in nicely >> with Slavoj Zizek's doomsayer prophecy of the "End Times" apocalypse, and >> the Gaia hypothesis of "inevitable entropy". >> >> But probably it fits best with Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine". > > Or it could just be an earthquake. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
