IRJ#22-QR
Plans: Protection from Chaos
“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.”(Book One lines 1-3)
This Great opening to Book 1 of The Odyssey, foreshadows the whole story of Odysseus himself. The quote later goes on to say that the Odysseus himself will be the only survivor of his crew because of his crew’s blindness and recklessness. In many instances of history, people have been blind and arrogant and which also led to many of their downfalls.
One clear example of this is in a film ironically named Blindness. This disturbing movie depicts a fictional story in which Blindness is a disease that one may catch. During the start of the film, one person becomes blind without warning. People try to help that person and try to find the cause of the sudden blindness. They eventually give up and end up going back to their normal lives until more cases appear. Soon the whole world is blind and everything falls apart.
Natural disasters are another great example of this because when people are not in their comfort zones, they do irrational things. They do whatever they want in times of trouble in order to find something that makes them comfortable.
Without sight, humanity seems to fall apart with no sense of control. Without a plan, humanity loses control. My point is that we must have a backup plans if one part of society fails because we cannot be dependent on one aspect of society.
