[MD] Chance

[Krimel]

Marsha
This certain effect was caused by that cause?  Or all those 
causes?  And interconnected to all the causes behind them?  And 
interconnected to all those causes near them?  Causes connected to 
causes connected to causes...   Where's the cutoff?

[Krimel]]
We tend to think of 
Chains of causality. 
Trains of thought
Lines of reasoning
Points of view 
We work the angles.
The Domino Effect shaped 
US foreign policy for a generation
 
But the lines of causality are linear 
As streams and rivers 
As coasts and clouds
As lungs and veins 

Causality draws lines like lightning. 
Causality traces root and branch 
And etches rings in time between them. 

Causality is not a chain it is a web, a net. 
It's not a string of pearls. 
It's a jeweled veil. 
It isn't pool balls on velvet. 
It's numbered ping pong balls 
Air popped by a lottery commissioner.
Causality is the dissipation of 
Prob abi li  t    y