Viral Karma

Once every few hundred years two remarkable things happen.

One is always good. This time? The discovery of gravitational waves has revolutionized the world of science and answered a plethora of questions allowing science to move forward to knew questions based on the discoveries made and new hypothesis for previously unanswered questions based on the same discovery.

The second… I always bad. Usually catastrophic in some manner, shape or form. And more often than not is comes in the shape of a pandemic. In the previous hundred year we faced the H1N1 Flu outbreak. 1918. This was tragic and we were well under prepared for what came for us. This is usually the case. Now we encounter the Corona-virus, causing Covid19 the disease. And like before, we are well under prepared. It’s human nature to forget our past and repeat our mistakes. It’s miraculous that we can both obey the logic of science so precisely and detect gravitational waves and then completely ignore science so precisely we miss something that the numbers tell us is a statistic probability.

Human nature is quite fascinating. We seem to always loop back to where we were. To always return to how things were. To always ignore what happened. To always repeat mistakes. To always avoid the voice of reason. Even though we know we should do the opposite.

Ironically, nature doesn’t miss a beat and always gets its message across, loud and clear.

We’ve had leaders in the recent years that have completely ignored the heed of global catastrophes likely to occur because of climate change. They brush it off because they’re elderly and they will surely be gone before the repercussion of their decision affect anyone. It’s basically “not their problem.” and they tell the young to suck it up, basically. It’s not their problem to worry about, it’s the problem for the next generation to fix. And thus, they’ll continue doing the things that cause these issues in the first place.

Enter nature.

A plague that seems to be by a large majority affecting the elderly population arrives. It’s taking lives in mass numbers and endangering the current state of the world. Things are changing at an alarming rate. The seniors in power have now gone as far as to ask the younger population to stop ignoring the problem and to make the moves needed to protect the elderly because their lives depend on it. The young, quite often have responded to these statements by brushing it off. As though it’s not their problem. Telling the elderly to “suck it up” in other words. It has nothing to do with the young. That’s a problem for the elderly to fix.

Nature doesn’t miss an opportunity to be ironic. Getting reminded that we’re not in control of anything, but rather, we simply pretend to by in control of everything, is by far the greatest thing that could happen in any lifetime. To be humbled by the power of nature. To be reminded of how often we are disgusting to each other and then to be forced into situations where we have to rise above and come together ignoring our differences. That’s truly beautiful.

Although, this plague is bad. Very bad. And our scientific discoveries are amazingly good. Very good. Nature comes with a dose of both. Showing us we are not in control of anything is something we’ll easily find bad. But being reminded that we are all in this lack of control together… Well, that’s pretty damn good.

It is fair to assume that the elderly abandoning the future of the young gives the right for the young to abandon the present of the elderly. I think that’s how it should be. Karma is a powerful beast that cannot be tamed. And I believe this wave of deaths, massive change an disaster is the natural course set in motion by those that forget karmic response is always right around the corner.

I would simply advise one thing moving forward. Be kind to one another and move as one to avoid these kind of things. Don’t teach a younger generation to not care by being the example… Because when you need them… Well, they might behave how you taught them to and simply not care.