Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-01-03]: Australia has severe problems with the floods that hit the country [source: web site]. Modern people of technology many times face problems with events that are absolutely natural, like floods and droughts. No matter how much we have "progressed", our world collapses when we face even the slightest deviations from what we have named "normal". The "primitive" people of Africa never have problems with drought: they have just accepted it as a natural phenomenon. What we consider "disaster", the nomads in Africa see as "natural". We have forgotten how to live in harmony with Nature and we are startled when she does what is...natural for her to do! Let's not forget that the people who survived the tsunami in Thailand were the "primitive" people who knew that they have to go to the mountains after the earthquake...
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