#Risk Assessment

Risk assessment is the sacred ritual of assigning meaning to a string of calculated numbers in hopes of averting nightmares yet to come. Superficially it offers comfort, but when scrutinized, it reveals itself as a ghost of hollow figures. Depending on whether one errs toward optimism or pessimism, infinite variants of proposed countermeasures emerge, most of which slumber unimplemented. Ultimately everyone cites it as a shield for avoiding responsibility, and the assessment itself vanishes into oblivion.