"Resilient" is too often used as a qualifier applied to anything: to be fit, a person, institution, land or firm needs but be resilient. However an entity of whatever sort can be resilient - or shock-resistant - only as a function of what it deems necessary or worth preserving from eventual deterioration or destruction. A precondition for this is to precisely identify the sources of danger and mobilize the means for coping, lest the word "resilient" merely amount to media hype or a cheap form of self-satisfaction. In each case, three questions should be asked: resilience... of what? for what? to what?
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