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Is Chaos Confusion or Creation?: Your Response May Be Magic!
Let’s think about chaos. That’s almost an oxymoron, for thinking implies logical patterns of analysis that allow us, perhaps, to draw conclusions, make inferences, and a whole host of human brain activity.
Chaos, however, says nobody really knows what’s going to happen, and that implies confusion; however, that is not necessarily true. A whole branch of mathematics deals with chaos theory, and it has many applications in a variety of fields. I wish I could review some of it, but I am not educated enough in math to even pretend to do so. (I bet you thought I’d say I don’t have enough time!! If you thought that and I said something different than what normal data would indicate, you just experienced a bit of chaos!)
Chaos, by simple definition in most dictionaries, indicates a totally confused state. That is simplistic, indeed, but when people want to use the word to create confusion, obscure ignorance, or escape responsibility, it works. For instance, politicians do this a lot: “Everything is in chaos, but I can fix it.” This is bent for hundreds of different purposes from the national level all the way down to local elections for any sort of office.
People cry chaos when they have little understanding of who they really are. “Wow! That’s a big leap,” I hope I hear you saying. Please give me…
