Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Chaos or Order?! Thy is the question…

joker-1-300x168I’ve recently re-watched “Batman - The Dark Knight” (The Dark Knight, 2008) which, besides being a great movie, also poses some pretty interesting topics to be thought upon. One of these thought-provoking topics comes from the Joker’s lines, the one where he is at the hospital, trying (successfully) to twist D.A. Dent’s mind, making him turn into Two Face. See the quote below:

 

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! (...) Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. (…) Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair!
(extracted from http://www.buzzpirates.com/2009/06/the-13-best-quotes-by-the-joker-in-the-dark-night-heath-ledger-lives-on/)

 

Video with the referred quote at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmkRi_tr9c

 

Well, this idea got stuck in my mind! Why do most of people do not know how to handle chaos?! Why do they need to follow a certain set of established rules?! Anyway, I really doubt I can develop the whole discussion here, on the blog, for this is the subject for a whole book, and years of heated discussions. After all, we’d have to define what we understand by “chaos”, by “established order”, what rules people’s lives, behaviorisms, etc.

But, summing it all up…the great problematic of the sensation of lack of balance, or comfort, facing chaos comes from the incapacity people, in general, have to think actively, meaning, to reflect upon events. Once they get used to the practice of reflecting, to thinking actively and frequently, one can start to get hold of their attitude towards (apparently) chaotic events, etc.

Besides, there’s also the question of what “chaos” and “established order” really are. The first, according to those who study the Chaos Theory, would contain some order in itself, even if this order is not apparent. And, the second, if we come to think, comes from some sort of chaos, meaning, from some sort of random choice. The established order, initially, begins at ground zero, where it didn’t exist, and, after some (theoretically) random choice, is conveyed as an established order, etc.

Anyway…chaos within order, order within chaos! Once again, it is all a great, big paradox to be thought of! Subject for many years of study and analysis…the whole discussion will never fit, here, on this blog…

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Paradoxal One

Alright...let's get it started!

This is the Paradoxal Me, the blog I've created to talk about the paradoxal "me"...yep, I'm paradoxal, and I had to vent somewhere...so, why not a blog, right?!

I'm just a paradoxal guy, living a normal life (not so paradoxal), but with paradoxal desires, thoughts, feelings, ideas, opinions...summarizing, a mess of an existence! My mind feels like a beehive of thoughts, basically 24x7, or almost that...and, this blog came up as an idea to let it all out. So, don't expect anything normal, nor logical, coming out here...things will not always make sense...actually, very seldom they will do!

There are moments when my heart is hot, at others it's cold...sometimes I'm optimistic, then I feel like killing myself...sometimes I like drama, then just a nice soft comedy...at times I listen to rock (most of the time), then I just want some good old classical music...and so on...and, quite often, that all happens altogether, at the same time...it's a mess!

Anyway, this is it...and, as you may have noticed, my mind works in a confusion of thoughts, then sometimes it's very methodical and systematic. Ahhh, I give up writing this opening post...stop by once in a while, and you'll understand all the fuss!

Thanks for your patience (probably, I'm just talking to myself).