Loaded Dice

 

Democracy

It's coming from the sorrow in the street
The holy places where the races meet
From the homicidal bitchin'
That goes down in every kitchen
To determine who will serve and who will eat
From the wells of disappointment
Where the women kneel to pray
For the grace of God in the desert here
And the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the USA

Believe in democracy , even when it can’t determine.

The belief in a deterministic universe, Determinism, as opposed to a random universe, Free Will, is IMHO at the heart of the problems that we have currently in society.  If you believe in determinism, that everything  happens for a reason, then you may look for that reason. That can make you believe in conspiracies, like “the COVID vaccine kills people”, or to scapegoating certain people, like “the Jews did it.” However, if there is no reason and the world is random and stuff just happens, then those conspiracies are silly and the scapegoating is incorrect.

The problem is that we may believe in an absolute, e.g. God, and that absolute should know what will happen, have omniscience, have absolute knowledge.  But this creates a paradox if the absolute knows the outcome of random events, then how can they be random.  To use Einstein’s complaint about the randomness of quantum mechanics, "God does not play dice with the universe".  The paradox is that we play dice, and dice IS random.  A possible answer is that God does play dice with the universe, it is random, but he plays with loaded dice,  i.e. knows the outcome of random events.  Since we are not absolute, we can appreciate this fact, even if we can’t understand it, and thus we play without knowing the outcome.  Casablanca is my favorite movie. I have no problem thinking of God as Rick Blaine.  God should be flattered. Rick did a beautiful thing.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_bKVAZJBw