Athena Aktipis
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first heard Jan 2026
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until the winter storm hits.
They're fixing, you know, their shelters for themselves and their livestock.
They're, you know, collecting hay and, you know, other feeds so that they can keep their livestock alive through the winter.
And, you know, you can kind of think of that on then larger scales where we want to be managing risk proactively, not just waiting for a crisis and then dealing with it in that moment.
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, when you say end times, right, and you think about like really like big disasters, I think one of the things about that that's compelling is, and scary, of course, is the idea that a lot of the structures that we, you know, know, the norms of society, just the ways that we do things, those structures
can and often do change in those times.
I mean, even, you know, with the COVID pandemic, which, you know, on a sort of long timeframe is not a particularly horrible pandemic.
I mean, obviously it was very, very bad, but just compared to, you know, others that we know could have been much worse has been much worse.
It changed so many things about how society was structured and, you know,
people talked about it as an apocalypse.
And I mean, I think like, you know, COVID also kind of brought the idea of like the apocalypse as like a household word kind of, you know, like people just started using it.
And, you know, I started talking about the before times, like right away when COVID happened, because I was like, all right, now we can,
you know, kind of use the apocalypse playfully.
But, you know, it's serious.
It's hard.
But there's also a sort of interesting open-endedness and potential for creativity, potential for re-envisioning things that comes when systems get disrupted.
And so I think that
There's, you know, both opportunity to think about how we might do things differently when a lot of change is already being forced.
But it's also, you know, it's also scary and can potentially be very challenging.
problematic to have, you know, institutions disrupted that might actually be playing a very important role already in regulating cooperation, or, you know, keeping society functioning in a way that, you know, doesn't disadvantage some people.
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