Day 3

As I was walking the dog today, I was thinking about one of my favourite aspects of human nature; the fact that as human beings we are consistently inconsistent and unpredictable. In a free market economy like North America, we are more concerned than ever with predicting human desire and taste. Even now, when our patterns as consumers are captured so easily and funneled through increasingly sophisticated software, there is still only limited success. I love that life throws out red herrings. We refuse to be pigeonholed. This string of thoughts reminded me of this poem, which puts all of the above in a more poignant and engaging form. o sweet spontaneous

o sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting                fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy           beauty     . how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods      (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover           thou answerest them only with                      spring) ee cummings This topic is also discussed in an interesting book called Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk  by Peter Bernstein.