Growing prices and growing tensions

I know it's going on for a while but some mornings when reading the news you can't but help thinking we're heading to a catastrphe rapidly.

It's not just that oil prices have risen 10 bucks in one single day, dragging Wall Street with them, that Israel is threatening to nuke Iran and that the dump and the corruption nightmare of Campania's dump has begun affecting Germany. It's that all that seems to describe our damn impossible reality in too clear and crude terms.

Or maybe it's business as usual and I'm just having a bad day?