“… Insight depends upon interest and attention; it’s really clear that black swans are both unpredictable (except in the very short term, where they become available to prediction) and upsetting. I have known for 30 years that what we naively refer to as ‘our infrastructure’ wouldn’t survive even a relatively modest threat… and now, we are not only experiencing a serious threat, we’re practically self-generating one… which is, I must admit, a black swan within a black swan….

Cities, for example, are absolutely unsustainable due to their extreme dependence upon supply lines. This is an insight any idiot could derive, and anyone with a malignant purpose could probably take advantage of.

A tiny crisis could obliterate or radically disrupt the entire fucking culture because of this. Yet everyone has been wandering around thinking we’re living in safety… because they don’t look at the delicacy of our ‘infrastructure’, which is devastatingly dependent upon supply lines that are so easily disrupted they might as well be made of toilet paper.”

— infraheard