The Natural Order is Chaos

In 1961, a meteorologist named Edward Lorenz was trying to discover ways to predict the weather better - he found what is now known as the butterfly-effect—the idea that small changes in initial conditions produced considerable differences in the long-term outcome, and subsequently that long-term weather prediction would be impossible. This became one of the foundations of Scientific Chaos Theory.

The thing that we have to realize is that whatever our plans are, there’s a butterfly somewhere who has already set into motion a chain of events that eventually destroy everything you’ve worked for.

But… chaos is not a bad thing—it is a good thing. Just like things that are organized want to fall apart, things that are in chaos wish to be organized. If you hung a picture intentionally crooked, someone will eventually come along and make it straight.

Just as the perfectly organized room contains stored kinetic energy waiting for every opportunity to be propelled into chaos, chaos contains vibrant living energy that is waiting to organize itself (enthalpy).

If you leave an unorganized pile of blocks lying around, someone will eventually come along and build something. If you create something and leave it sitting around, someone will ultimately light it on fire.

Chaos is the way that nature is put together. Our attempts to tame and control it are almost never successful. When we leave it alone, life seems to take care of itself.