From The Shadow of the Sun

From The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski:

On the one hand, experience has taught me that situations of crisis appear more dire and dangerous from a distance than they do up close.  Our imaginations hungrily and greedily absorb every tiny bit of sensational news, the slightest portent of period, the faintest whig of gunpowder, and instantly inflate these sign to monstrous, paralyzing proportions.  On the other hand, however, I also knew something about those moments when calm, deep waters begin to churn and bubble into general chaos, confusion, frantic anarchy.  During social explosions, it is easy to perish by accident, because someone didn’t hear something fully or didn’t notice something in time.  On such days, the accidental is king; it becomes history’s true determinant and master.

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