A closed ideological bubble is based on
contradictions and lies, but it can defend itself against the truth, provided
that it can predict which lie to remember when. Therefore ideology’s notorious
immunity to reason; for reason is predictable.
Therefore the truths that pop a bubble are the
unpredictable truths; the revelations from chaos. They could be big, like
Hurricane Katrina, or little, like a video-phone hidden behind some crystalware
at a fundraiser. Size doesn’t matter to chaos; it’s scale-invariant, and
sensitively dependent on initial conditions.
Ideology is about control, but the real world is out
of control. Always has been, always will be. Anything that can go wrong, will
go wrong; that’s Murphy’s Law, and in the fight against mental tyranny,
Murphy’s Law is your friend.
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