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Disaster?
Yes,
 disaster.
W
hen you
think 
of disasters, perhaps some secret part
ofyou
thrills at the ideaof 
 something happening,
something
interrupting
the tedious routines thatcomprise existence for so many of us.
Y
O
U
might not be ready to own up to
actu-
ally desiring one, but
a
disaster would at least offer a chance
to
escape your cageand explore the unknown for a little while. What anguish, to live
in
longing for areprieve from your own life, never knowing when or if it might come!Or perhaps you cringe at the word, thinking of all the senseless tragedy andloss of life that real disasters entail. In that case, it may have already occurred toyou that we are in the midst of the most terrible slow
-
motion disaster in history,as the natural environment is utterly laid to waste and the diversity of human ex
-
perience is steamrolled into the
monoculture
of capitalism. In such a disaster, youcan't cook out of the books your ancestors developed for more
peacehl
times.Whether disaster is something you privately pine for or desperately hope toescape, one thing is for certain
-
the old recipes won't
suffce
anymore. We need
reapes
for disaster. Here they are.
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