I saw a sign yesterday that's been bothering me with implications.
It was at an ice-cream stand at the zoo and said

                   PLEASE ENTER HERE
                         -->
It was on the left side opening of a cordon in front of the stand, with the arrow pointing to the right side opening.

I was unable to figure out what it wanted me to do. If it said Please enter here, I would enter where it was placed at the left, but the arrow seemed to indicate I should enter here over there. If it had said Enter, I'd also take the left. If it said Please Enter There --> I'd have understood to go to the right.

As it was, I went where people seemed for the moment to be backed up, to the right.

People kept entering on both sides, butting in front of each other, while we sat eating our ice-cream. I would question the point of having a sign as confused as this, I would think the sign useless and even stupid, but it was a nice sign. It had an authoritative-looking font. So I felt it encumbent on me to understand it, even excuse it. Then I gave up, and thought it was useless and stupid.

Then last night I was watching a political ad on t.v., then a very controversial Very Important movie, and it started to seem to me that the sign was in fact telling me something, something true, and with all the authority of the voice of God. "This is how things are, you doofus" loosely translated from God-language.