Fluke Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

the book Chaos covered this in great detail for people who are curious about that.

the book Chaos covered this in great detail for people who are curious about that.

He went completely flat broke and it took him decades and he lost his job because he became truly obsessed with the Charles Manson case and the things that he was uncovering.

And now they have restocked chaos in bookstores all across America because it has been selling out.

I see someone right now in the comments saying, Candace, I'm reading Chaos. I'm so happy to see so many of you guys now diving into the MKUltra program.

I'm so depressed on the weekends without an episode. Also reading chaos.

A friend of mine sent me a book. And the book was called Chaos. And she said, you'll love this for your birthday. And I opened the book and I couldn't put it down.

The subtitle of the book is something along the lines of Charles Manson, MK Ultra in the 1960s.

Long story short, he ends up finding that the CIA was intimately involved. And now this is public knowledge.

Chaos was they needed the hippie generation to end and having this big fake staged Hollywood murder that the CIA was actually involved in and Charles Manson was a fed was a way to traumatize with propaganda, was to traumatize the public.

It's why I say you have to read that book, Chaos, because it deeply dives into the MKUltra program, but also makes you aware of the plausibility of a mass psychosis.

And you know that when we began this independent endeavor, I basically said that reading the book Chaos was required reading.

It was all about the MKUltra program. It was all about the Charles Manson murders that actually the CIA was involved in, like Charles Manson.

As I say, chaos is mandatory reading because everything that that guy was writing just didn't seem crazy about the monkeys.

I joined the book club and I started at Chaos. The first episode gave me chills.

Yes. Alan Dulles, looking into the CIA, I read this book, Chaos, that then led me to The Devil's Chessboard. It's actually on our list for books to read for the book club.

Yeah. Yeah. It'll knock you--Chaos, CIA, the Manson stuff, that was the one that knocked me, and I was like, what the heck is our government? What is going on?

It's called Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.

When I finally got that, that was when I could see the hardcover, you know, a few months later, ... it felt like a giant baby being born.

Coincidences are wonderful stories. I don't want to blow the stories in favor of the mathematics because, you know, I was hitting a nerve on coincidences.

It's called Fluke, The Math and Myth of Coincidence.

If you categorize these coincidences to, let's say, 10 different categories, that particular kind of coincidence, meeting an acquaintance or somebody you're familiar with, in a very strange place, I would say perhaps 80% of all the coincidences I've heard fall into that category.

Joseph Mazur, professor of mathematics and author of Fluke, The Math and Myth of Coincidence.

It's called Fluke, The Math and Myth of Coincidence.

If you categorize these coincidences as an acquaintance or somebody you're familiar with, in a very strange place, I would say perhaps 80% of all the coincidences I've heard fall into that category.

Coincidences are wonderful stories. I don't want to blow the stories in favor of the mathematics because, you know, I was hitting a nerve on coincidences.

It's called Fluke, The Math and Myth of Coincidence.

If you categorize these coincidences to, let's say, 10 different categories, that particular kind of coincidence, meeting an acquaintance or somebody you're familiar with, in a very strange place, I would say perhaps 80% of all the coincidences I've heard fall into that category.

Joseph Mazur, professor of mathematics and author of Fluke, the math and myth of coincidence.

And so I'm trying to take seriously the way that the world actually works, which is swayed constantly by these sort of random and small and seemingly meaningless details.

And the third part of the subtitle of my book is why everything we do matters.

And I'm bringing it up simply because I think when I say that the first time to people, they say, oh, it's like this turn of phrase that like you could, you know, put on a self-help pillow or something like that. I mean it as a scientific truth.

I mean it that there's literally nothing that we do that has no ripple effect.

And so, you know, when I do go on television to talk about US politics, like you have this really strong pressure to not say, I don't know.

I'm so excited to read the books of Maccabees first and second Maccabees to read Sirach to read Wisdom so good and then we go to Luke and then we're all living in the New Testament so that's coming up really soon

Reverend White was reading from the book of Luke to a tall drunk trucker about to puke he had John 316 memorized, trying to dry his ass out to get him baptized.

He tells them that he is the fulfillment of this chapter. He's the one who will set the captives free and bind up the brokenhearted.

You can read all about it in Luke 4, 18-30.

I want to talk about your new mind bending book, Fluke, Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters, which I found a little bit alarming and scary, but you claim is uplifting.

What we have done is we've ignored that a lot and how we understand the world. And I think it's created this hubris, which leads into the second part of your question about the Black Swans, where I think we have engineered a world that is extremely prone to chaos, and prone to being shocked because of chaotic events.

The idea that you know, a vacation 19 years earlier can cause this massive shift in who lives and who dies in World War Two is the way that world actually works as part of chaos theory.

Because of the ripple effects of all the things that we do, it is totally wrong to say that we're unimportant.

The book is Fluke, Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters.

And I think there are books like Chaos where you're like, that sounds good. I really should learn about Newtonian mechanics or whatever. And then people read the first three paragraphs and then that's it.

It is one of these things where my world view was upended writing the book and I think a lot of readers have said the same to me.

It says, terrible act of insane woman. Now we probably wouldn't describe it the same way today, but basically this woman, Clara Maudlin Janssen, probably had postpartum depression in 1905 after having four kids in about five years.

And then when you start to play that forward, every person I've met in my life, every conversation I've had, every podcast interview I've done is predicated on the mass murder of four children.

The most infuriating thing that people said to him relentlessly afterwards was everything happens for a reason.

And it's like, no, you don't control this. The illusion that you have over the ability to control things in your life, that is useful up to a degree. But if you really believe in it to the point where you are now worried, you're obsessing over this actually, you're now no longer focusing on the right thing at all because it's really, I mean, they have to do this, right?

He is author of Fluke Chance: Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters.

Look, yeah, in Luke chapter 9 James and John get offended by some merit in village and the first thing they want to do is blow it up, right? Lord, we command fire to come from heaven and consume them and the Lord, no, no, that's not why I came.

Jesus opens up the scrolls in his own hometown, and he begins to teach. But what he taught was the opposite of what the people were expecting.

We're going to dive into the book of Luke, chapter 5.