Monday, November 14, 2005

Luck

In The Monolith Monsters (1957) these gigantic, black silicon crystals come crashing toward the town, crushing everything in their path. Scientists devise a plan to halt their advance, but as one of them observes, it will rely heavily on luck for its success. In my studies I have noticed that luck often plays a part in ridding the world of monsters. In many ways, I think it would be better not to have monsters to begin with. Then we wouldn’t always have to depend on chance to intervene on our behalf. To be sure, there are monsters that are unavoidable, and for those no one is to blame. But we are purposely making monsters every day. Those are the ones I have reservations about, mainly because they’re the ones we can do something about. I’m just afraid something bad will happen with all these monsters around. If it does, will we be able to fix it? Maybe not. We may not always be as lucky in the future as we have been in the past.
2001

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