More Positive but Less Harvestable

[BrownEye]

It is uncanny how some of these distortions I have been jammering on about in various threads: the "Three Wise Men", the Mayan 2012 prediction as an apocalypse, astrology as having been birthed by the Babylonians, not the Aryans...

The brain finds it relatively easy to grasp threes -- elements, colours and fonts. Push that marginally up to four and the brain gets confused about where to look and what to do, and sends the eye scampering like a frisky puppy on a sunny day.

So why does this happen? For that we might have to go back a little to diaper country. As a child, everything you did and learned seemed to be centered around three -- A,B,C; 1,2,3; Three blind mice, Three musketeers, Trinity, Three Stooges and Huey, Louie and Dewey. (Quack! Quack! Quack!)

Then again, maybe these writers, animators and wise men understood the ease with which we understand 'threes' and reconstructed their work to fit this paradigm.
http://www.hodu.com/marketing-communication.2.shtml

Hmm, they removed the three wise men since the last time I had read this.