Catastrophic Event and Advancement of Society

Hi. (sorry, the post about young generation still in need of ideas)

Recently, most of our sources of information describe about the earthquake that hits Japan together with the tsunami that came afterwards. Everyone seems very surprise about the news. Well, i think if you are a fan of Japanese drama you shouldn't be so surprised as in their drama itself, sometimes they mentioned about earthquakes that occur in Japan. But well, there are a few facts that lots of people didn't know.

#Fact 1

Japan's technology is in advance state where although an 8.5 in Richter scale earthquake hits them most of the buildings are still intact. (Need a few more clarification)

#Fact 2

Japan was located on an area where several continental and oceanic plates meet, that is why they got a lot of hot springs. But still, geologically, it is not a suitable place to live.

#Fact 3

Tsunami did a lot of destruction as compared to the destruction brought by the earthquake.

#Fact 4

Most people are idiot because they believe in whatever they read. I've read a lot of things and yes, there are some misguided information that was intentionally given to us.

Forget about the facts just now. As we can see, Japan is the most advance country in the world. And so it is important, politically, economically and etc for other countries such as USA and Malaysia. But if you look at how Japan is 100 years ago, you will not believe that they can achieve this much of advancement in merely 100 years.

Well, everything started after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yes, the atomic bombs killed a lot of japanese people. In fact, it also destroyed many structures. But how come Japan can still advance to the top despite of many catastrophic event that led to painful death and destruction?

If you go to google and search about the history of earthquakes that hit Japan, i'm sure you'll find that almost every year, Japan was hit by earthquakes. Some of them may be a minor one. But as i mentioned earlier, the technology was so awesome they did not have any problems with earthquakes until now.

So the hypothesis was, a major catastrophic event can change a country. Now, whether the change is positive or not, that depends on the environment, sociology, people etc in that country.

If we look at Japan, obviously the changes were positive. If you look at Malaysia, i think the changes were neutral. I mean, in Malaysia people don't care. That's why it is neutral. I don't have an example yet of a country where catastrophic event brings negative effect but if for people, i think there are so many.

Anyhow, if we take every catastrophic event and turn it into superpowerful drive to get better, i'm sure we can achieve a lot in life. I'm not saying that we must be hit by tsunami everyday but sometimes, small things can also be our catastrophic event. We just need to find out what it is. Anyway, i do hope people in Japan can recover faster from this event and also hopefully they can achieve a much better environment than they have right now.

I think that is all, thanks for reading.