The karmic charm of self-fulfilling prophesy

Let’s start by going to the great oracle of Wiki:

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true . . . 

~ From Self-fulfilling prophesy, Wikipedia

Elsewhere on the great Wiki you find this further explanation:

Robert K. Merton defined self-fulfilling prophecy as, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.

The surprise gift within Merton’s definition is that a self-fulfilling prophesy begins as a false statement. 

Now let’s focus on the karmic beauty of the remainder of the definition: 

When this false statement causes belief, also presumably false, at least initially . . . this new belief and the actions that arise from it insure that the originally false prophetic statement comes true.

Sweet Jeezy Jazz-o-lifealicious, I’ll take more of that —

For you —

Evan Griffith
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