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The world is under no obligation to make sense. When you move through the living world, you will occasionally see or hear something that is so far removed from what we think of as ‘normality’ that the mind simply seizes up. Think of it as cognitive sand in the gears.
When that happens, most people will simply warm boot the brain. A lightning quick power-off and power-on that doesn’t actually clear the memory, but restarts the system a fraction of a moment later, bypassing the cognitive impairment. The person continues as if the offending object or sound doesn’t exist.
But some people stop. The mind enters a WTF loop while it attempts to reconcile what is being seen or heard with known reality. Such attempts universally fail. At some point there is a sort of Buddhist acceptance — a recognition that the thing exists, even if it can’t understood in any rational way. This permits a degree of appreciation, which is generally expressed in this way: “I got NO idea what the hell this is, or what it means, or why it’s here, but lawdy it’s so very very cool.”
Here is a giant plushy pig on a bed of plastic trash bags that aren’t quite International Klein Blue. Deal with it.
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