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funny story my dad told the other night at a company christmas party: 

so, michael jordan. arguably greatest athlete of all time, could do stuff no other human being could do. at one point he wanted to pick up golf for fun, and apparently dad knows the north carolina dude that taught michael jordan golf at a club, cue how he knew this story.

so the teacher gets jordan out on the greens, making critiques on his stance like this and that, shoulder down, hold the club straight like so - [story best elaborated with an actual golfer showing you the crazy poses they do]

and after a while jordan goes, 'geez, only a white person could come up a sport like this shit'

XD

(it's true. jordan became a hellaciously good golfer at any rate, from what i hear)

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"More conservative minds deprive coincidence of meaning by treating it as background noise or garbage, but the shape-shifting mind pesters the distinction between accident and essence and remakes this world out of whatever happens. At its obsessive extreme such attention is the beginning of paranoia (all coincidence makes “too much sense”), but in a more capacious mind it is a kind of happy genius, ready to make music out of other people’s noise. Either way, the intelligence that takes accidents seriously is a constant threat to essences, for in the economy of categories, whenever the value of accident changes, so, too, does the value of essence."

- Trickster Makes This World