Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/author/ianmitroff/)
“[Fred Rogers] is the only human being on TV to whom you would entrust the future of the world.” –Gloria Steinem
When it came to understanding and communicating with people of all ages, Fred Rogers was a genius. Fred Rogers knew what really made people tick. First, he was a life-long student of human development. Indeed, he studied under some of the best child psychologists and psychiatrists of his time.
One of the least understood aspects of all major crises is that assumptions are among their very first casualties. They are also the last to be rethought and rebuilt. To be better prepared for the next huge earthquakes and disasters that will inevitably strike, it thus behooves us to examine as many of the assumptions as we can that were made in Japan and elsewhere prior to the recent devastation. The following are just a sampling of the many critical assumptions that need to be rethought. First and foremost, my colleague at UC Berkeley Bob Bea has pointed out many times that, “There are no natural disasters. There are only natural hazards.