Black Swan Theory in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 02 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 02: Black Swan Theory

Swans were supposed to be white or that’s how the world knew it to be. Until the discovery of black swans in 1690’s in the territories of Australia, the blacks were just a figure of speech.  The black swan was not an abstract idea anymore and it was no more a thing of impossibility. Latins, romans, middle ages – you name it, there have been talks about how a black swan contradicts the laws of nature.  Out history amazes us, isn’t it?  As of today, as a metaphor, as of history, a black swan is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation. It is that event that has potential severe consequences. They today stand for extreme rare and severe impact events and now that’s a black swan theory. Well, have you known one such event (we all sure know more than one)?

Image Reference: From Wikipedia, attributed to “Fir0002/Flagstaffotos” as per Under the CC BY-NC. Author: fir0002

Poem:
An outlier, or so called.
With an impact,
Rarity and extreme.
An artistic stand-out  
In ideas and beliefs.
Always existed,
There to thrive,
And the swan is black?

I sometimes wonder how true the generalizations are. It is part of our failure or are we just a pattern-ly failure?