“Plague took about five thousand as promised, fear took millions and billions for paranoia.” There’s a lot I understand and a lot I don’t understand. When panic takes over many, I understand. So here is the nature of survival in a nutshell or short and simple format: Courage. If we face life with it, we are better off, even if we die or whatever happens, good or bad (in that order). Even Viktor Frankl said that one with his Logotherapy trainings, as well as most self-development people, speakers and all that.

So I really start this article with a corollary that says, “Ultimately, courage makes survivors.” I understand that courage comes from genuinely and soberly understanding what you need and want (in that order) to face in life and existence, not paranoid or blindly fearful avoidance. Paranoid preparation without full understanding is the ultimate “castle in the sand washed up in the sea” to speak in the terms of old Jimi Hendrix songs that make too much sense for the left or rational brain of a human being. What I mean is that paranoia and fear ultimately do nothing more than decrease the chances of rational survival and, in fact, increase the chances of irrational death.

This is what I mean by the above increased chances of irrational death: in the mindless rush and panic of survival, ultimately in that panic you end up as “a sheep blindly falling off the cliff with the other sheep”. My point is, think for now and don’t follow the panicking crowd. Sure, it could make it more complex and scary. What’s the point of that? We have to think creatively and courageously for ourselves if we are to genuinely and rationally survive. What is the point of Viktor Frankl, Adam Smith (a genuine rational economist of supply and demand), and Ayn Rand’s philosophies other than this fact anyway if you read everything they write? Plato, Immanuel Kant, John Maynard Keynes, and the hereafter are not factors for the here and now, they basically say, “In the long run, we’re all dead, and we’re going to be taken to the hereafter anyway, so forget about the here and now.” now”. “Some may say a fearful “Yes, right?” or no!” However, know the reality, if we want to rationally survive, reality must always be considered in a rationally creative way, we cannot follow the crowd, the herd or fear reality and recoil from it. We must rationally look at the facts and then always act on them. So I end with a simple quote from Thomas Paine, which is also the title of a treatise he wrote: “Common Sense.”