Instead, his Nine Laws recall the process theology that has quietly built up steam in some twentieth century religious circles, a theology that supplants the transcendent one-shot Platonic Creator with a more Taoist and Heraclitan sense of creative evolution and constant becoming. It isonly after you have faced up to this fundamentalrule and learned to distinguish between what youcan and can't control that inner tranquility andouter effectiveness become possible. But I am sensitive to some areas from which change is emerging. I think that's pretty much the best we can do these days, because change is both exponential and in some weird, either new or newly revealed way, out of control. That's why conspiracy theories are so popular.
Conspiracy theories are big because they're comforting.
Any conspiracy is infinitely less multiplex than the real deal, which is sort of multiplex to the point of being unknowable. Though we think we're in control, though we think we're in control. Questions that besiege us in life are testament of our helplessness. There's no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. When we all disintegrate it will all happen again.