Here in the Basement, we try to avoid two things:
- Simply pointing to posts at other blogs, no matter how good they are or how much we agree with them;
- Encouraging the importation and distorted application of complex scientific concepts to life, literature, or even other branches of science.
But this post brings quantum mechanics to bear on modern politics so perfectly, we couldn’t resist.
(Why do I say “we”? I don’t know—I keep feeling there’s someone else down here …)
“we try to avoid two things”
Good thing it’s just those two things; that eliminates 95% of the posts you’ll find out there. It would lead to a catastrophic blogosphere die-off like those caused by the asteroid strikes ending the ages of the dinosaurs or of the Burgess shale… although new memes would struggle out of the ooze to take their place…