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Card #c767IR // #c767Synthesis

Of course. That there’s nothing to understand. Synarchy is God. Mankind can’t endure the thought that the world was born by chance, by mistake, just because four brainless atoms bumped into one another on a slippery highway. So a cosmic plot has to be found—God, angels, devils. Synarchy performs the same function on a lesser scale.

— In our words · Source: Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

[Use when]

Use when someone demands the 'real story' behind a random event, and the kindest answer is that randomness is the story.

[Why it matters]

Lia's answer to why conspiracy theories exist: contingency is unbearable, so the mind installs a plot — divine or political — as the bearer of meaning. The conspiracy is theology for people who cannot pray.

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