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Doing things the wrong way is a good way of discovering new ways and ideas. If we were programmed to go always in the right direction we couldn't explore the landscape and we should be trapped in a local minima. Random behaviour is part of an intelligent design to evolve and mature. Humour is a way of jumping across island of rationality.
The Futility of Chaos is the sequence that responds to this sort of claim. (That sequence depends on Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, if you haven't read it yet.)