The Law of Truly Large Douchebags
In Littlewood’s Law, famous mathematician John Littlewood posited that people can expect miracles to happen at the rate of one per month.
According to Littlewood, if we experience one new thing every second and if we are alert for eight hours a day, in 35 days we will have experienced 1,008,000 things. Thus, we will have a “one-in-a-million” miracle occur every month.
Littlewood’s Law and The Law of Truly Large Numbers, which it’s based on, are realistic but misguided. They serve to debunk phenomenology when actually they substantiate it. I believe Phenomenology to be a study of consciousness that includes finding order in chaos by merging our perception of the two.
Littlewood thought he was so clever in demysticizing miracles by delineating them as commonplace. But I can (and always have) used the concepts in these laws to nonmystically manipulate reality— through being hyper-aware of my experiences and engaging in an unreal amount of them at the maximum frequency my body can withstand (far more than 8 hours a day, I’ll say that much).
This is how I drove through a rainbow in 2002 with my friend Josh. This is why Littlewood and most people never will and wouldn’t realize it if they did.
