Monthly Archives: July 2007

There is a line in the movie Repo Man that goes something like this -

A lot o’ people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch o’ unconnected incidents ‘n things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o’ shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

- Miller says it. Carl Jung says something similar. When he does he calls it synchronicity; the experience of two or more events that occur in a meaningful manner the cause of which remain inexplicable to the person experiencing them. And the Germans have a word, “scheissenbedauern”, which means the disappointment you feel when things don’t turn out as badly as you’d expected. I always seem to get a feeling of schadenfreude every time I experience scheissenbedauern.