in praise of strangeness

I just read an interesting facebook post by a guy who reposted two pictures of wavy walls with an explanation (a wavy brick wall can be only one brick thick but a straight wall needs to be two bricks thick for structural support) which states that wavy brick walls- though longer because of the waves use less bricks and so are cheaper...Anyway the item was shared 24k times and counting. The re-poster (who only translated the piece) said nothing had EVER approached this viral activity. Wavy walls (plus the explanation) have something about them...maybe a deep down feeling that something organic like a wave is really better than mechanical straightness? Or maybe that the counterintuitive idea (like bumblebees not being able to fly in theory) was very appealing to our sense of mystery? Whatever the reason I thought this wavy wall thing is more of what I like (and other people too it seems). It is strange and unusual and almost everything- owing to the blasted interweb- mostly isn't. It is all the same old repiped and recirculated by a dominant group of fashion setters. I am guilty too- even posting some tripe about a current news item. Get REAL! Let the mob do that. The real work is finding the jewels that have been stamped into the mud by the mad hoardes rushing hither and thither...