Friend, have you heard the good news?

What do these men know?

Who was it who discussed the synchronicity aspect of newspapers? The sense that all these events happening at the same time, all these "meanwhiles" are due to some larger "because" that surely must exist in order for them to be united in this newspaper (even if the "because" is just that the Editor - did you know that "edit" is a backformation from "editor"? In the beginning God. Only afterwards, his acts of creation). Or what if god is the backformation, and the concept of synchronicity came first? What if, in other words, religion was the first great inductive leap?

We lost god when the "meanwhiles" became too much to handle, and no amount of "because"-ing could make us believe that there was one great Objective because.

So why do we still think that newspapers tell the truth about what's happening, when god himself can't explain the whole world? How can the New York Times claim to have "all the news that's fit to print"? Why do so many ask news.google.com what's going on in the world today? Why do we read our local newspapers instead of just asking the first few people we meet on the street what's happening?

Do you have faith in the invisible hand of Editor? How much faith? Or are you a realist who reads blogs? How realistic are those blogs?

Photo: Ambassador From 12 Galaxies, Meet The Ambassador from the Jolly Roger by Thomas Hawk