Cultural transitions: Cannizaro and the Augarten

Culture, history, particels on the sub-atomic level, one and all osciallate, repeat and exchange information continuously. Thomas McEvilley said as much, Aristotle said as much, Max Planck said as much. Can there be surprise then, in the face of such repetition, oscillation, exchange, that the identity of two entities (to-whit Cannizaro Park London and The Augarten Vienna) will swap for a single day on Friday the 7th of May 2010? To ask for a cause for such a metaphysical exchange is to ask what drives civilizations to rise and fall with such equally measured undulation, or quantum particles to appear and vanish, consistently appearing utterly random. These are facts of this universe, not the simple exchange of cause and effect. There may be laws but they are incomprehensible in scale and scope. Three more ingredients: Friday the 7th of May, Cannizaro Park, The Augarten. When these three combine there is no telling what may happen. The proof, as always, is not in the prediction but in the pudding.