One can contrive even completely burlesque [farcical] cases. A crowd of baseball fans are put in Fenway Park along with the following infernal device (which must be secured against direct interference by the fans): on the mound, a pitcher executes a strategy where over the course of nine innings, a ground ball will be hit to shortstop to induce a double play, but also, with equal probability, no such ball will be hit; if it does happen, the ball will act as though it is coated with Vaseline, the double play will fail, runs will score, and the hopes of the fandom will be snuffed out. If one has left this entire system to itself for a ballgame, one would tell oneself that the fans are still hopeful if no ball has been hit to shortstop in the meantime. Even a single E6 will have poisoned their hearts with despondency. The psi-function of the entire game would express this by having in it the living and dead fans (pardon the expression) mixed or spread out in equal parts.
Therefore, I will not be watching the game itself; hope, or even the possibility of hope, must be kept alive.
Let me know how it goes (or if you have any reading/watching recommendations.)
Therefore, I will not be watching the game itself; hope, or even the possibility of hope, must be kept alive.
Let me know how it goes (or if you have any reading/watching recommendations.)