“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…
