Order & Chaos
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Interpretations
There are opposing poles of Order & Chaos. Our aim is to live in the middle, where challenges are difficult but attainable.
- If our challenges are too easy (Order), we are calling on the Merciful Mother, and we always win.
- If our challenges are too difficult (Chaos), we always lose.
Neither strategy has any benefit for us.
We should seek challenges which enable us to take on the right amount of chaos. That is the level that makes us most willing to engage in the challenge.
There is a Hell of Absolute Order and a Hell of Absolute Chaos; we should strive to live on the edge.
There is Order & Chaos, Yin and Yang, the left-brain and the right-brain, the known and the unknown. Together, these make up everything in the human experience.
Mediating between Order and Chaos is the logos, speech, and it can often make Order from Chaos or Chaos from Order. This is the Dao.
Chaos, the Unknown, is a threat, it is where the dragon lives. But it is also where the treasure is, so our hero myths talk about the dragonslayer, who kills the monster and brings back the treasure. But Jesus was a speaker who brought Chaos out of Order; he destroyed a corrupt Order by speaking new truths.
This is what happens when we learn something through logos. An old concept disintegrates (O->C, descent) and a new understanding forms in its place (C->O, ascent). The new order includes everything that was in the old order, plus more. That is progress.
We face chaotic nature; we structure it and communicate about it (to make order out of it, using the logos).
We must articulate publicly and negotiate. Free speech is the process by which we strike the balance between order and chaos.
See Also
- Logos
- Being
- Free Speech
