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What I notice in this is an attempt to make a concordance between events and pre-existing patterns formed from our prior experience. I think this is one of the fundamentals of the way in which our brain works. On a positive level it feeds our ability to reason, learn, grow; on a negative it feeds superstition, credulity, and all the other forces of unreason.
It’s partly what I was trying to examine in my pome in the aftermath of the NY atrocity – the irony that the same pattern-making instincts can serve both inhumane fundamentalism (in which I include the unquestioning belief in the mantra of world capitalism!) and the beauty of reason in which our minds and spirits can excel.
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