I find all of our world society is operating exclusively in parts. We know this because the word synergy is unknown popularly and it is the only word that means behavior of wholes unpredicted by behavior of their parts. This proves that society does not even think that it has a need for such a word. This discloses that society does not think that there are behaviors of wholes unpredicted by the parts. It thinks statistics and probability are all that we need but if probability and statistics were of any power at all we could not have a stock market or gambling for we would know exactly how things are coming out and no one would bet against the probability.

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