i mean, every crisis is an opportunity, right?
how are they going to sell us clean air and water unless they make most of it too filthy to consume?
how are shares in arms companies going to keep climbing unless we keep warring?
how is big pharma going to prosper if we learn to be healthy?
and who's going to buy media sources full of agenda-driven lies if the internet thrives?
gets ya hooked on the junk then sells ya the cure... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Human evil is a more comforting thought than human stupidity, I guess. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
as for being comforting, i wish...
besides evil is just stupidity concentrated to the nth degree, no? nothing metaphysical here!
or perhaps evil is unaccountable stupidity with a superiority complex.
so good is accountable intelligence with a sense of proportion.
works for me... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
and yes, it does look random, what am i missing? Eventually physical reality trumps narrative. It can just take a long time. Derrick Jensen
Without the algorithm or knowing the dependent and independent axises ... it's semantically null.
Thinking about it a tad more ...
It could also be "semantically reflective" of the epistemological presuppositions of the viewer, analyzer. Humans really like patterns, ya know.