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Posted by Don MacPherson on February 11th, 2011
A short time after it was announced Friday that President Hosni Mubarak was stepping down after a 30-year reign of dictatorship over the people of Egypt, there I was, on the crapper (the two events were unrelated — I wasn’t celebrating the possible advent of democracy in the Middle Eastern country with a visit to the loo). I was thumbing through the pages of the latest issue of Ultimate Spider-Man (#153, to be precise), and I was struck by the incedible timing of a sequence in the opening prologue.
“King of Cairo”? Was it possible that writer Brian Michael Bendis knew how Mubarak really rose to power in Egypt? Or at least the Hosni Mubarak of Earth-1610? Actually, no — all of the characters save for the Kingpin are wiped out by his use of the Zodiac Key a few panels later.
These weird little coincidences are… I dunno — fascinating? Disconcerting? I don’t know the term. Mildly amusing is probably the best description.
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February 20th, 2011 at 1:38 am
There’s only one word for it: Synchronicity – I like to think of it as the metaphysical opposing force to Entropy. Whereas Entropy is basically defined as “things fall apart”, Synchronicity can be summed up by “things fall together”.
Like when I read The Dome by Stephen King; and then not a week later I read the issue of Second Coming where Utopia gets encased in a dome, and then I randomly read an issue of new mutants where the same thing happens.
Synchronicity!