One thing Leads to Another

When a recent television news programme showed a footballer called 'Wayne Rooney' kicking another footballer, I thought 'I bet he wouldn't be any good at flower arranging'.

It was a surprising association of ideas, because there was nothing about flowers in that programme, and I handn't been thinking about them before I watched the programme.

Perhaps there is a primitive inclination to connect similar things, and to infer that something ugly, like Master Rooney, could not produce something beautiful like a flower arrangement. Certainly Philosophers have often claimed that an effect ought to resemble its cause. I think that assumption unwarranted.

Perhaps if only Wayne Rooney took up flower arranging he would excel, and at the same time become less unpleasant.