Cosmic Exceptions

The Drummond Diaires, 10/9/72 - The way some people carry on about their "specialness," one would think that some sort of cosmic cherry-picking device is at work in the loftier social realms, rather than the simple coin-toss of luck, circumstance, and means. If one life can be judged a "mistake," then without the cherry-picker, all lives can be so judged. But there are no cosmic exceptions, except where, once again, fate and means make that claim possible. But if one life is deemed valuable, then all possess the same potential value. If one life is "entitled" to reach out for the dangling threads of the happiness rushing past him, then all are so entitled. If one life sees he must take the course that falls to him to the exclusion of all else, then maybe all lives have to do the same thing.

On the most elemental level of reasoning, it becomes an inescapable conclusion that all must do the same thing. That some win and some lose is once again simply a manifestation of the die roll of luck, circumstance, and means. Every week someone wins the lottery; that makes him lucky, not special. Every other conclusion is a fabrication concocted by the cherry-picker.