They Were Running Toward It

Every account of a crowd fleeing turns out, on inspection, to contain a great many people running the other way.

MHMartina H19 June 2025 · 10 min

An enormous painted eye in a starfield above four men in red uniforms running across a blue grid.

The evacuation literature is unanimous and almost never quoted: in a real emergency the dominant behaviour is not panic. It is going back for someone.

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