Mathematical modeling and engineering analytics are phony controls. The outcomes of simulations and the charts predicting fatalities cheapen the real and glorious fear of being alive. Science tames the world, but only in laboratories and the coded confines of a hard drive. Out here it's a mess and no actuarial table can save your dumb ass.
Some things so far resist modeling: turbulence- of air and of water, a wall stacked of stone, the desires of the human heart. Ask Gabriel Garcia-Marquez or Osama bin Laden. The power of love and the love to hate are wild and free, immune to analysis. Statistics can suggest the likely location of the next bombing, your dating app can recommend a fuck-buddy, but neither can tell you why. You cannot model the sacred passions that rule our foolish race. Mathematicians guess at certainties. Only artists can articulate the true grandeur of humankind's savagery.
Ever since we invented God we've been trying to replace Him/Her/It.
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