Pandemonium

Pandemonium is commonly known as widespread panic. Not the band, but "pan" (everywhere) + "demonium" (demons or evil spirits). Demons and Evil Spirits Everywhere. Like the moons of Mars; Phobos and Deimos, or "Fear" and "Panic," we Americans kind of know the concept. As individuals, or in small subsets, we have experienced these, such as in disaster survivors of wars, tornados, floods, fires and earthquakes.

It is the "Pan" part of Pan-demonium that we cannot get. We think we always have someone to turn to who will not be in "Fear" and "Panic." The "Pan" part of Pan-demonium means that everywhere you turn in your fright; they will also be in "Fear" and "Panic." There will be no face that reassures you. There will be no succor and no relief.

I suspect that there was something like that in the American Civil War, The French Revolution or maybe in Russian Revolution. Better yet, Pompeii likely experienced the “Pan” part, as in everywhere, all at once panic, but not here.

In America today, and I am being generous here, there may one in ten humans that can deal with such panic. I pray for better odds. My advise is to anneal yourself to such, as it may well be that Pandemonium is upon us.

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