The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
— Carl Jung
Albert & Alberta discuss
Jung rather lets us off the moral hook here, doesn't he? It's comforting to think my occasional lapse into utter silliness is merely natural harmonic motion.
I don't think he's excusing bad behavior, Albert. He's pointing out that human vitality rarely lives in rigid correctness. Creativity often begins as pure nonsense before it ever makes sense.
Much like quantum electrodynamics, then. Perfectly absurd until the mathematics forces you to concede it's actually running the universe.
Exactly. If an architect only ever designed what was strictly sensible on day one, we'd all live in concrete cubes. The playfulness has to come first.
A terrifying thought. Very well, I shall permit the pendulum to swing toward nonsense for twenty minutes while the kettle boils.