Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Predictable

If I were to select a random sampling of the global population I would find repeatable patterns. Some people would have diabetes, others lung cancer and others would have red hair or be intersex (which have the same frequency of occurence at approximately 2%). 

There would also be cases of anomalies where the person is almost one of a kind in the combination of traits that defy any level of expectation. 

When we end up with levels of predictability in percentages with consistency it shows that these people are not accidents. They form part of not "things that can happen" but "things that will happen" with certainty. 

Historically, marginalized groups were painted as outcasts because they didn't fit within official political or religious narratives. Thus if you were gay you were expected to repent and agree to conversion therapy or perhaps an exorcism. Never mind that they belonged within a statically predictable norm. 

Abbey Stein grew up in a Hassidic community with no access to television or internet and yet was one of those predictable statistics with a story that matches many others.



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