Apocalypse Means ‘Revelation’: What Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves

Taking the Haitian earthquake as his example, Junot Díaz writes, “After all, if these types of apocalyptic catastrophes have any value it is that in the process of causing things to fall apart they also give us a chance to see the aspects of our world that we as a society seek to run from, that we hide behind veils of denials.”