Arthur Seldom:
Since man is incapable of reconciling mind and matter, he tends to
confer some sort of entity on ideas because he cannot bear the notion
that the purely abstract only exists in our brain. The beauty and
harmony of a snowflake, the butterfly that flutters its wings and
causes a hurricane on the other side of the world. We've been hearing
about that damn butterfly for decades but who has been able to predict
a single hurricane? Nobody! Tell me something. Where is the beauty and
harmony in cancer? What makes a cell suddenly decide to turn itself
into a killer metastasis and destroy the rest of the cells in a healthy
body? Does anybody know? No! Because we'd rather think of snowflakes
and butterflies. Or Pain? War? So why? Because we need to think that
life has meaning. That everything is governed by logic and not by mere
chance. If I write 2, then 4, then 6, we feel good because we know that
next comes 8. We can foresee it. We are not in the hands of destiny.
Unfortunately however, this has nothing to do with truth. Don't you
agree? This is only fear. Sad.