Randomness is a form of organization that we cannot understand, much less master. However, randomness is the most logical way one may expect to find … well, everything. It just makes sense that things will not be found in rows and columns unless they were heavily affected by some outside force. Randomness is peaceful. It doesn't waste energy. It adds a lot of variety, and beauty to the world. I find a lot of comfort in randomness. When I go looking for whatever I'm seeking I never know what is next, right around the corner. It could be what I want. More often it is what I need, and if I had known where to find what I wanted, I wouldn't have found what I need. The serendipity affect of research, holds that as we diligently seek the answer to one problem we won't find it until we have found the answer to one or more other problems.
If we are willing to surrender a little control, to... God, nature, randomness,-- whatever, then we will be amazed at the amount of patients with which we can face life. Personally, I seldom loose patience with randomness. I loose patience with that dude some where out there, who is responsible for those pop ups, phone calls, and junk mail. “Just mail the post paid card...” “If you weren't so stingy you would give me all your credit card numbers over the phone...” “Click here or your virus protection might get eaten by a shark...”
That reminds me. What is a virus? Does a virus have anything to do with randomness? The answer to that question, is Capital NO! Randomness and every virus out there have nothing in common – Unless randomness is the target. Of course organization also could be the target. When a virus hits it's target, you get chaos. Right here it needs to be pointed out that randomness and chaos also have no more in common than organization and chaos. Remember that “we can't understand” thing about randomness. I think that the original virus is what happened the first time someone thought he could usurp God's authority and tried to organize someone like me. It went very badly. Maybe, if enough of the right dudes would embrace randomness the word virus would disappear from the English language.
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When God created the earth, He used randomness with magnificent style. He put iron ore in Pennsylvania, coal in Kentucky, and fertile valleys hear and there. He could have put iron and coal in nice little stacks right next to each other, but He didn't. There are some things that don't come totally random . Snowflakes all have six corners, sides, … six of something and yet, all snowflakes are different. No two are alike.
Randomness versus organization is a big debate right now in government. Our current president seems to want to organize everything (especially me) to suit him self. It 's an old debate. It has been called free enterprise versus central planning. Central planning, is what they used to do in the former Soviet Union. Free enterprise is what we used to do here in the USA! It's what works. Now my fourth grade teacher (and all the others) told me that people that plan and are organized are happier and more successful. They were right' (sort of )... I think. They had a great lineup of examples. Everyone plans some, but I noticed that the real stars on that lineup prepared more than they planned. The problem with central planning is that it is usually is done by someone a thousand miles away (or more), with a long list of things you and I are too stupid to know how to do. The list of course includes, where to work, what to eat, what to drive, how to heat my home, how to light my home, even how to spend my own money. The list is endless. I don't know what makes them think they are so smart as to know my mind better than I do. They do claim to know that the world is going to flop out of it's orbit or something if I don't drive the right vehicle, or stop eating pigs feet. I really get tired of it.
The current president is right to blame the former president for the mess we are in. President Bush could have pushed a lot harder to stop the central planners from meddling in banking and other industries. If he had, the mess would be mostly over by now. Well by now, even if there never was a banking problem President Obama would have created one. Central planning doesn't work as well as free enterprise in terms of quantity. Few societies have ever created a middle class at all. The middle class in the USA is, well,... most of us. And what about the poor class? We have a poverty line, and there are a lot of people who we call poor. And they are more likely to be fat than members of the middle class. By historical standards the poor are those who are more likely to be thin, or in danger of starvation. Now quality, of course, is subjective, and more importantly depends on who you ask. Kings, presidents, and dictators, along with a few religious fanatics tend to favor central planning. It makes them feel powerful. It grows the poor class, and shrinks the middle class. It gives them more wealth, and their country less. It gives them first class soldiers with second class, or worse, armaments. No two nations with elected presidents have ever been at all out war, and unelected kings, presidents, or dictators who have gone to war recently with nations with elected presidents have had their “clocks cleaned”. And if we will, now, will reject central planning and embrace free enterprise they always will.
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