Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold
And anarchy is let loose upon the world.
-WB Yeats..The Second Coming

Hey guys, The poem above very much reflects my thoughts at this moment, spurred on as it was by the dreadful events going on at Celtic, and with Neil Lennon. The falcon is very much a creature of the falconer, very much under its grasp, it hunts when the falconer wants, it goes and comes at his beck and call. However the poem above twists this and asks what if the falcon can't hear the falconer. What if after having loosed this idea/creation/concept, you can no longer control it.

On the news today, there was a report of a guy who jumped the railing and tried to accost Neil Lennon on the pitch itself, fortunately nothing happened. But I would venture to say that this person would not have done so under normal circumstances, i.e say Rangers and Celtic didn't have this huge rivalry between them, and the derby day tension hadn't been played up to the max. This guy probably, in my opinion wouldn't have done that. When they we're amping up the rivalry for the derby that day when this all erupted, from which the aftershocks are still being felt, no one thought that it would lead to this kind of sectarian violence and death threats.

Secondly, another example which I'm sure everyone will have thought off, the atom bomb, or more precisely the splitting of the atom. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall Einstein regretting the fact that he had ever worked on the splitting on the atom. The co-conspirators (for lack of a better word) in the Manhatten project, seem to be quite taken back as well at the gross level of destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When scientists, and mathematicians were calculating/figuring out how to split the atom, I wonder how many of them thought of the untold destruction that it would wreck on the world.

Thirdly, and a bit more fluffily...Harry Potter, or more specifically the Harry Potter Fandom that seemed to just come into existence somewhere between the third and fourth books, and gather steam in the long space of time betwen the fourth and fifth books. The volume of fanfiction, fanart, and just in general, fan love for the series propagated itself towards the characters of the Harry Potter series in a very interesting if a tad weird way. Draco Malfoy, became the undisputed hero of the fandom and to further mix it up Harry and Draco, a male/male pairing became the most celebrated couple. Pairings started abounding like anything, slash started multiplying, and characters that had barely lines or two lines written on them in cannon had entire lives, entire character histories established, and then expectations set for certain characters SHOULD act. I would be quite impressed if J.K Rowling had forseen that.

At the end of it all, one wonders if this is why naysayers are needed especially when anything new comes out. Because 'nothing ventured is nothing gained' but then again 'a bird in hand, is worth two in the bush'