Prologue
When I was a sophomore in high school, I enrolled in a Western philosophy class to fulfill a social science requirement. On the first day of the semester, my teacher, Mr. Early, wrote three words on the board: Kata to chreon.
The phrase, he said, was ambiguous, both in origin and meaning, but basically it was translated “according to the debt.” The ancient Greeks, Mr. Early told us, believed that the universe was an ordered place, where everything had a price that was collected in due course. The universe, he said, strives for harmony and balance. All that is born will someday die. Ashes to ashes. Things fall apart.
Those guys might’ve been old, but they were on to something. Science tells us that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but also that every action has an equal and opposite reaction—all debts are eventually paid in full. I don’t remember much else from the class, but that particular idea stuck with me. Kata to chreon.
Apparently, the universe won’t let you get away with anything, at least not for long.
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