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Rating: "If something can go wrong, it will." Law n°1
"The Law of Murphy" is not simply a booklet of aphorisms on the laws of bad luck that govern the universe, released way back in 1988 by Longanesi. Over time, its bizarre laws, theses, and postulates (which the most optimistic say are “invented”) have become so ingrained in the current mindset that they are often quoted on various occasions, in discussions and the radical-chic salons all over the globe, when talking about "bad luck" and the laws that govern it. In America, real Academies have been established that teach all of this with a final diploma (but you know, Americans are exaggerated beyond any limit!).
Genius, in all this, was the intuition of Arthur Bloch (born 1948) who attributes his discovery to the mysterious aviation engineer Edward Murphy Jr., an emblematic character (and perhaps never existed) who first formulated a kind of mathematical decalogue on the facts and misdeeds of certain of his failures.
The Art of being able to grasp the "rule" that hides a certain bad luck and that repeats it constantly over time, is called "Murphology."
The law of Murphy, in reality, is therefore a series of postulates, rules, theories, and axioms drafted in the form of a scientific law (but of a philosophical nature), aimed at justifying the existence of a Great Universal Design that coordinates the negativities that assail us and that make us so furious.
I quote excerpts from the first chapter, to better explain the concept:
1. Nothing is as easy as it seems.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. If there is a possibility that multiple things will go wrong, the one that causes the most damage will be the first to do so.
4. If four possible ways a thing can go wrong are anticipated, and they are prevented, a fifth way will immediately appear.
5. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
If on a first level of reading one smiles wryly at the ruthless truth of some phrases, on a second careful and analytical reading one finds oneself hopelessly facing an incontrovertible treatise on negativity, which we can test with our own hands every day: at work, in line at the Post Office, at home, and in social and emotional relationships.
Not surprisingly, given the tremendous success of the first volume (we're talking about tens of millions of copies, not peanuts!) other derivative and specialized volumes were subsequently written, with titles:
* MURPHY'S LAWS ON THE ECONOMY
* MURPHY'S LAWS ON UNIVERSITY
* MURPHY'S LAWS ON THE HIGHWAY CODE
* MURPHY'S LAWS ON THE AGENDA
* MURPHY'S LAWS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE
* MURPHY'S LAWS ON SEX
* MURPHY'S LAWS ON LOVE....
which have in fact stretched the broth and reinvented new postulates adapting them to different situations.
A true Bible of Bad Luck, accompanied by cheerful didactic drawings (but if we want optional), in constant update, that makes you laugh out loud and, at the same time, reflect on the chance or otherwise of certain situations that often seem to befall us for no apparent reason. After reading the book it will be interesting to understand if you will be able to associate every single fact that happens to you with the law that states it.
Will you ever be perfect Murphologists?!
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