How do we take credit for the success of “our team”?
Rachel Osier informs me that The University of Texas football team, the Longhorns, are undefeated. I used to go to UT. So does this make me partially responsible for their triumph? If so, how?
Rachel suggested she might deserve some credit for possibly being the last person to register for a class, which a football player would have signed up for in her place; the class would have been too much work for him, he wouldn’t be concentrating on football enough anymore, and UT would have lost to OU.
If you believe in The Butterfly Effect, however, a butterfly caused Hurricane Katrina just by flapping its wings. So surely a UT student doing something incredibly minor could make the difference between UT winning all of its games, and UT losing every single game. The problem with this is that anybody - or anything - could do this minor thing that sets off this hidden chain of profound events. Including people who want UT to lose. Or even parrots in a Los Angeles bird store.
6 years ago