I'm watching Shin Godzilla, the perfect metaphor for the COVID-19 pandemic

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3. Safety systems, not preppers wasting time in spiderholes

What struck me most about that film was the idea of safety systems already in place to move entire populations. The exercise in logistics to feed, clothe and house moving a million people staggers.

Yah, it’s fun to watch big monsters duking it out, but that’s not the story. Big G is a metaphor, of course, for nukes and other things and Shin does a better job telling the story, including the part most other Big G stories miss, the survival. Generally, G stories intellectualize survival. People are off at some distance having intellectual conversations about the event in a sanitized environment. Shin does some of that but it includes more. This is the real story of Godzilla, the survival of a terrible event, the cleanup and the continuation of life as it was, not as we have to live now. Those safety systems carry the day, caring for people, removing fear and establishing a way forward.

Google the one-billion year plan. I vaguely recall this being proposed by an Air Force officer. It runs along these lines: https://www.kurzweilai.net/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan

When this is your planning horizon, more become possible sooner.