John Rappaport at his blog writes:
In the last 20 years, more and more people have become obsessed with Pattern. Finding it in events, information, energy, everything.
Obvious Pattern, hidden Pattern, secret Pattern, symbolic Pattern.
On top of that, governments search for patterns in their trillions of pieces of surveilled data.
The discovery, for example, that a flower and snail and a galaxy reveal identical mathematics is taken to indicate something sacred. Only a decline in IQ can explain such a conclusion.
One may as well fall into a worshipful trance because windows, tables, and moving vans reveal rectangles.
Art, however, isn’t based on pattern. And that becomes a problem. It stops the puerile mind in its tracks.
Read the rest here.
