The History of a Toss by Weng Pixin (Mini Kus! #119)

The Universe is Chaos. This is the central treatise of Pixin’s otherwise affable and engaging work centered on the notion that bad things can, and often do, happen to good people. The thing is, the universe doesn’t discern between “good” and “bad,” there are only occurrences, series of events that are completely random and chaotic, crashing into each other and impacting our lives. In and of themselves, these events don’t have any meaning; it’s people who try to ascribe meaning or purpose to events, to look for patterns in the chaos in an effort to understand, influence, and control. Pixin’s work is deceptive, because the anthropomorphic creatures are cute and fun, but I read it, and enjoyed it, as a fairly dark work, suggesting that everything happening around us is just cold random happenstance. There is no order, there is no higher power standing in judgment, actions do not carry meaning, and while we may perceive them personally in an effort to infer value and worth, they actually have little to do with us.