"Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking."

Is wishful thinking all its cracked up to be ...?

“He is seen, but he does not see; he is an object of information, never a subject in communication.”

"The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO9NP-SiT8s&list=RDLO9NP-SiT8s&start_rad...

“All around the world, populism and the promise of simple solutions to complex problems has taken hold with a vice-like grip."

When in Rome ...

"Bentham didn’t want the panopticon to be a tool for oppression, and in fact its failure eventually led him to develop a type of anti-panopticon later in life – where a minister sits in an exposed room and is surrounded by members of the public who listen and ask questions. The idea is that this transparency holds power to account, because the most dangerous people in society can be rulers. It is important that they, as well as prisoners, workers and children, feel watched."

"As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0S0-K3xlM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/aug/12/powerful-typhoon-swe...

"Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30927102

With 'Donnie Darko' living next door and last night's musical tribute to the entire cast of East Enders ... one wonders, when.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/23/panopticon-digital-su...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMhF6dskM5k

"The UFO phenomenon follows this law with almost spooky conscientiousness. The few predictions that do come true in this collection are always about basically unimportant things happening or important things not happening. Unbelievers tend to have a better success rate than believers, but that seems to be largely because their predictions tend to be of a modest and forgettable form like the UFO phenomenon behaving more or less as it always has with no high consequences. When they get a little ambitious, they get cut down as well."

https://rr0.org/time/1/9/9/8/StillWaitingAListOfPredictions/index.html

"the basic upshot is that their pronouncements deserve no more weight than the opinion of an average man in the street"

To the Three Dragons.