The druid said: Traffic generates saints

1. What the Scene Depicts (Operationally, Not Theologically)

The image stages a familiar socio-ecological pattern:

· A radiant figure (Brigid) = a salient attractor in an attention economy.

· A vast crowd moving toward her = mass convergence around a focal point (i.e. a gravitational field).

· Goats in the foreground = detached, non-participating observers embedded in the same ecology but not invested in the belief system.

· Halo, glow, colours = signal amplification (visual markers of importance).

Nothing supernatural is required to explain the phenomenon. The scene is a traffic generator event:
a concentration of bodies around a high-salience node.

2. The Causal Chain Behind “She’s a Saint”

The category “saint” is not an ontological discovery.
It is a post-hoc label attached to a successful attractor (like the mythic St. Patrick).

Causal sequence:

1. A figure becomes a high-visibility node (ritual, myth, narrative, spectacle).

2. Bodies aggregate (pilgrimage, crowds, mass, circulation).

3. The aggregation (as mass) is retrospectively interpreted as proof of sanctity.

4. Sanctity is then used to justify further aggregation.

So:

Traffic → Sanctity label
not
Sanctity → Traffic

The goats intuit the correct causal direction.

3. Why the Second Goat’s Line Is the Logical Ground

“She’s a saint”
is the folk-metaphysical explanation.

“’cause she generates traffic”
is the ecological explanation.

The second goat supplies the mechanism that the first goat mystifies.

In plain terms:

· Saints, gods, gurus, relics, temples, and icons
are successful attention attractors.

· Their “holiness” is a reputation effect of crowd formation.

· The halo is not a metaphysical property;
it is branding for convergence.

4. The Naturalistic (druidic) Rule Being Exposed

This image compresses a general rule of social systems:

Where bodies converge reliably, prestige emerges.
Where prestige emerges, sanctity is inferred.

Or in procedural terms:

· Repeated convergence → stabilised reference node

· Stabilised reference node → symbolic elevation

· Symbolic elevation → narrative of holiness

The goats are not being cynical for humour’s sake.
They are stating the base-layer causality that religious language hides.

5. Final Compression (the goats’ theorem)

Nothing is holy first.
It becomes holy by generating traffic.

(It becomes whole, real and identifiable by interacting).

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