Chaos’s Missing Ingredient
May 27, 2021
When big changes happen, we often talk about how order inevitably arises from chaos, and often a better order than we might have had before.
But we often miss something key when we’re considering this.
In physics, the only way for order to arise from chaos is with the transfer of energy. Work must be done for chaos to become order.
Chaos is very healthy for our lives, society and civilisation — it makes space to sweep out the old and usher in the new — but it only works with work.
Work hard my friends: the world is a mess and there is much work to be done.
