<< Chaos and order- Pt.I

Absence is useful in defining what we have (or don’t have). We know there’s warmth because of the cold, light because of darkness, good because of evil, loneliness because of company and so on.

In no leser way order and chaos are defined in terms of one another. 

Individuals and the collectives we integrate strive to create order. Simply put, we seek to expand our (and our loved ones) safety net in a way that elements outside of our control are reduced and therefore less threatening. 

But can we really eliminate chaos as an element? Furthermore, is it really desirable?

Part of the same coin, chaos and order interact indefinitely in a continuous cycle of life and death or creation and destruction.

The way we control this interaction is through creativity. Which is as much the capacity to impart order as it is an ability to deconstruct that which is already present. 

Should we take for a fact that any creative activity is only a restructuring of that which we know; then, logically, we might see it as well as the active search for chaos to alter the present shape of an object, thought or idea.

This has its own set of lines and limits: we cannot create outside of what we know for example. We require frameworks and references of knowledge/culture to generate new elements and expansions. It nonetheless imparts importance to chaos in our search for meaning and security.

A stable but rather predictable (or even boring) life with an excess of order numbs our mental capacities and stagnates our development. Rightly applied chaos (if there is such a thing), contributes in keeping our worlds in check as well, and defining the boundaries of where we are and the place where we are going.

Thus not only is chaos desirable, it’s an absolute necessity for us to see the world properly and to create new things of benefit for us and society as a whole.

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