"Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"
Lets face it- the effects of butterflies' wings flapping are on the whole harmless. Is this strange question designed to provoke the extermination of the butterfly species for fear of the possibility of untold ecological disasters befalling the human race? If so, this is a very advanced form of paranoia which should not be taken seriously. Let them flap away and consequences be damned.
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Sounds like one for Panorama Andrew. Need a cathcy title though, suggest -- the butterfly: beau or bastard?
Seems to bring to mind Mao's wiping out of the sparrows to stop their eating of the grain crops only to end in calamitous famine as a result of insects devouring said crops- these insects now happily without the predator known as the sparrow reducing their numbers.
Just to stress it wasn't to my knowldege Mao personally wiping out these sparrows, but people much lower down the hierarchical ladder.
His only mistake then was not to also kill the insects?
Yes, as ever, he wasn't psychotic enough. "If a fool persisted in his folly, he would become wise."
Who's that: Kwai Chang Caine?
Unfamiliar with Kwai Chang Caine, though I'm sure I'd have the utmost respect for teh fellow were I to know who he is. But no, William Blake.
Kwai Chang Caine = wandering half-Chinese monk from classic 70s TV series Kung Fu. Has lots of wise-sounding sayings. As title of show suggests very good at Kung Fu. Possibly a contemporary of Blake though I know of no record of their paths having ever crossed. Some Kung Fu krackers on you tube here
Humbling stuff.
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