The Iron Law of the Olympus of Memes. A Sneeze. Chris Dove.

 

 Why are the laws of fad and fashion so endlessly fascinating?

 


 

The Iron Law? 

 

The iron laws of Memes are the, is the, a singular law at heart, the law of the pendulum swing. In 1952 was published a "future history" tale about the near future. The very near future, 1952. The premise of the hard, hardest of hard, science fiction story was that the well-observed pendulums of fad and fashion, of skirt and eyeglass, of philosophy and literary bowdlerizatory excursion, applied to larger affairs as well.

 

In a world of Einsteins and Galileos, and Christopher Columbuses (Christophers "Columbus") (before he was cancelled), why and how could there be such passionate hankerings after just being an ordinary normal person? 

 

Of Magellans and Elcanos and Enriques da Moluccas?

 

To be nameless and faceless and merely, only, hardly uniquely, painted with the passions du jour?

 

It was of course our old friend:  Nietzschean Gesundheit. 

 

Why do periodic cicadas emerge in cycles of a prime number of years long?

 

Yes, indeed.

 

So as not to win (or lose in this case) a Jackpot. 

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The internet (search engine monopoly internet) seems mostly frontpagedly blind to this irrational yet stately almost quasi-seasonal Realm. 

 

The random disaster known as "a fad" might have been only slightly less neglected.

 

Tangential here and here ...  

 

 And it gets worse:

 

                                                         Chaos Theory
 

 

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