Book Review: The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979)

So this book was recommended to me by an old hippie couple back when I was playing Bioshock Infinite. Bioshock Infinite opened my eyes to the wild world of quantum mechanics and so I asked around if anybody knew anybody that could tell me more about the subject. Eventually I was drinking at a bar, which is a common thread in my stories, and found myself blabbing about it the aforementioned hippie couple. They told me that reading this book would expand my mind. Well it fucking didn't, and the only thing that it could expand is your ability to tolerate total bullshit.

If you're trying to decide what book you want to read and this is the most appealing option that you have at your disposal, then all you're deciding is which cooking oil to use when you burn your house down. This book is the Laura Lynn vegetable oil of books. Your brain is the house bursting into flames.  

The book calls scientists "technicians" and says that they are essentially not interested in anything new. Only in applying what is already known. That is simply false. After Francis Bacon and the scientific method, the world becomes bearable from a technological standpoint. Science and scientist are the human part of creating things that are useful, creative and progressive for humanity. I don't care if anyone disagrees. I would rather have an AC unit over an oil painting any day of the week. I say that while still loving art, a huge part of my heart will always be owned by art, but c'mon, at some point we gotta just tell the truth. 

As far as I could tell, the book was trying to convince us that the secret to understanding quantum mechanics was to return to spiritualism. That should be a setup and punchline all on it's own but I'll keep going anyway. I would rather build a safety net out of shoe strings and free fall into it off of a sky scraper before I would ever consult a shaman/preacher over a doctor. For me, that's what a return to spiritualism is all about. I don't trust anyone to do anything right, but a it's a lot harder to be a crappy doctor than it is to be a great shaman/preacher.  

I was a bit pissed once I got into the book and realized that the hippie couple must have thought that I am the dumbest guy in the world. Elsewise, how could this book expand your mind? I guess it did help me to visualize some pretty interesting stuff. I remember losing interest in the passage I was reading mid sentence and imagining what the grand canyon would like if it was completely filled to the brim with soccer balls. That was a neat bit of fantasy to enjoy. 

I'll be honest with you, when it comes to books, movies and games I really only have one criteria, was this fun? I did have fun reading this book. The math, experiments and psychic mysteries that the book included are too complicated for me because I am too easily distracted. I don't think this book will expand your mind or help you understand quantum mechanics. But it was fun to read and I now have the memory of it to reference when talking to friends in bars. Even the wacko 60 year old hippies that sit down next to me without an invitation and with plenty of open bar stools elsewhere. So I had a good time with it, but I don't think most people would. Ultimately I do not recommend you read this book if you want to learn more about quantum mechanics. In the meantime I'm going to be reminiscing on that time in the past when I was so high at Mcdonalds that I was pretty sure that if focused really hard, I would be able to make my chicken nuggets levitate. For me, that was my return to spiritualism.

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This is the wacky book if you want to give it a shot. Down here is the Bioshock collection. It includes Bioshock 1, 2 and Infinite. Bioshock infinite was and is the only thing I know about quantum mechanics.