LOST redux

This post as a whole is not meant to be taken seriously and it is not that I am choosing to write this out of the huge unfilled, gap that was created after the ending of LOST, but having recently gotten back to studying economic schools of thought, I recalled something interesting - Daniel Faraday is proponent of fate. In LOST season 5, he conducts research at Ann Arbor, presumably to determine whether or not free will exists - can he and his companions, trapped in the 70s, ever return back to the 2000s?

Where is Ann Arbor located? Michigan. The Midwest. A hotbed of freshwater economists, let alone right-wing conservative economists who advocate that any sort of intervention done by any governing power in money markets will exacerbate inflation. However, Daniel's own study in the land of monetarists and (some Austrians) may indicate that he himself was led to believe that free will was impossible. Note the following exchanges:

Faraday: We don't know when the next flash is coming
Sawyer: So how can we stop it?
Faraday: We can't stop it
Sawyer: Well then who can?

Faraday: It doesn't matter what we do. Whatever happened, happened.
Sawyer: Well, thanks anyway, Plato. I'm going over there

Which also seems to alienate Sawyer from Faraday's train of thought. Sawyer may very well represent the flawed common man. He himself to be fully capable of living his own destiny, when he is at the mercy of the world and his own fate.

Our hero Jack thinks likewise, along w/ Desmond Hume (perhaps not directly) - the constant [variable]; Faraday's constant - who is off island (the character; both Humes, however, are proponents of free will). For a while in between his arrival back to the island and his untimely death, Daniel Faraday joins in with the others out of desperation. To do what, exactly? To save their lives from the drop of a hydrogen bomb that's gonna get dropped. Faraday is subsequently killed by his mother, whom he says knew all along that he would die (despite the fact that the present time Eloise says that for the first time, she does not know what is going to happen because...

SHE USES ADAPTIVE EXPECTATIONS!!! REGRESSION WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE BECAUSE THERE IS NO PRECEDENT TO WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!! Daniel Faraday turns Neo-Keynesian or rather, I'm not even sure if we can label him.

So - Ben Linus moved the island in order to save it from a domineering Charles Widmore. John Locke goes back to fix the wheel and returns to the present. Faraday, who believed that destiny could not be changed, attempted to change it w/ friends in the face of disaster. Then Jack and co. return back to the island. In the process, Flocke emerges. It appears that Faraday was somewhat right, since the "past" was definitely relevant to the present.