#this reminds me of the ninth doctor #and people doing this over letters and using the early internet #chasing him back through time for decades #dghda #man i can absolutely see the wild conspiracy theories ppl would come up with #it would be insane #what if they completely missed her #i mean shes kinda hard to miss #always covered inblood #wow #this #meta #is just way too gosh darn ding dang cool (x)
Yeah, all this time, Bart thinks the reason people aren’t trying to stop her is because the universe is protecting her from consequences, but actually, the people who don’t stop her are just being people. The universe has nothing to do with their choices not to intervene. They see a crazed woman with blood matting up her hair, and either they think she’s part of a TV show being filmed, or they’re just relieved she’s not paying attention to them and so just keep walking, because they don’t want to get involved. They talk about her later, sure, but talking about something and doing something about it are two very different energies.
A lot of what is attributed to ‘‘the will of the universe,” as it turns out, is just people choosing not to help. The universe itself, as it seems apparent in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, is motivated to help people. This is seen again and again in who it chooses to place on its “holistic” path: Amanda can’t stand to see people die and will do anything it takes to protect them; Bart unnervingly finds the worst of humanity and destroys it before it can hurt anyone else; The Rowdy 3 protect and adopt every outsider they can find because they care; Dirk himself is an exercise in wanting so badly to help people that he would abandon all chances at his own life being in any way good to him, if he can only keep saving the lives of others. Then we have Francis, who builds “a perfect world,” which is tellingly one in which there is no discrimination or true conflicts, not until an outside force intervenes with it, and Mona, who could be anything in the world, but chooses to be a person who leaps in front of vulnerable people to take bullets for them if it will only help save them, and who thinks it’s more important to be good than to be right. The universe picks people who want to help, and who are able to help, because the universe thinks helping is the right choice.
Bart thinks the universe is swinging her around carelessly. She doesn’t realize part of this might just be the callous people she has encountered, their own free will dictating the degree of their apathy, and her own direction forcing her to encounter such people so frequently that it is hard for her to see the repeating pattern as being a human choice, not a predestined one.
And Dirk? He thinks he brings nothing but chaos to his surroundings, without realizing that the same chaos would be there, whether or not he was involved, but the universe puts him there because it knows he will try to do something about it. He will not sit idly by and simply watch as the unfolding chaos hurts people. He will try to stop it. He will not be apathetic. He will help those who are being affected by it, and the universe loves and favors those who help.
I go back and forth with the idea of the universe in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency being either wholly uncaring, or unbelievably sympathetic, in a way not easily understood. I think an argument can be made for either.
To quote Wakti Wapnasi, “And alongside those, there exists free will.”
It’s difficult to tell, sometimes, if the universe likes to whisper in its own way to people like Dirk, and Bart, and Amanda, and the Rowdy 3, and Francis, and Mona, and even, I think, Todd, because the particular shape of the choices they make with their own free will leads them in a direction the universe, too, favors, or if they’re all just conveniently placed, and “liking them” has nothing to do with it.
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