Steubenville Rape Rap.

I watch a video of a scientist proving that human imagination can alter the diffraction patterns of a laser passing through a double slit in a closed box, a logical impossibility, and then read about two young footballers prosecuted for rape in a small town outside Pittsburgh. I’m struggling to understand why I’m wanting to make a connection between the two. On the one hand it appears the mind operates behind the locked doors of sensory perception, and on the other imagination appears to have an effect on actual reality irrespective of sensory connection and physical distance. The concoction of drunk lads, a paralytic girl and iPhone cameras made the case open and shut. The evidence was collected by the perpetrators as a testament to hubris. What was shown to friends with pride bit back with tears in the dock. But for the inventive minds at Budweiser and Apple the evening would have been very different. So in a very real sense our inventive minds can through imagination bring things into being which we thereafter must live with. In the scientific experiment those who meditated far outperformed those who didn’t, as did musicians, artists etc, creatives who are in the business of bring things into being. This suggests that the mind can be disciplined to receive and create or if left undisciplined be at the mercy of the concoctions of its own sensory isolated domain. In fact if anything connects the two stories it’s that being prosecuted for rape was also a logical impossibility in the minds of the two footballers that evening. As an inventor I’m used to ideas being somehow ‘in the air’ for one to catch. Years ago one morning I had an idea that would revolutionise the optics of photocopiers only to be shown a hot new paper in the afternoon of the exact same principal, and our cat Betty definitely knows when we’re thinking of taking her to the vets. It’s as if we’re all connected by thought in one way and disconnected by it in another. Is this thought I’m having purely ‘my’ (disconnecting) thought, or ‘a’ (connecting) thought? With a supplementary question of ‘how do I differentiate between the two?’ And possibly a third question, “How the hell do we catch Betty to take her to the vets!?”