I have half a mind to start describing this as a war against the Powers of Chaos, and I may start doing so.
For whatever it's worth, I don't like this. As in so many things, I don't think "order" is good and "chaos" is evil: like all extremes, they are both damaging! A purely ordered universe would be static and crystalline (and useless), while a purely chaotic universe would be a nebulous mess (and useless).
Indeed, the COVID lockdowns strike me as a disease of too much Order, rather than too much Chaos. We are stifled by rules, rather than falling into incomprehensibility. (Even as those rules are, themselves, ridiculous.) I got this in a particularly direct way for a divinatory reading the other day, where my spirit contact characterized the government as an overly fussy and anxious mother who couldn't understand why her children didn't appreciate everything she does for them.
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Date: 2021-02-02 04:03 pm (UTC)For whatever it's worth, I don't like this. As in so many things, I don't think "order" is good and "chaos" is evil: like all extremes, they are both damaging! A purely ordered universe would be static and crystalline (and useless), while a purely chaotic universe would be a nebulous mess (and useless).
In computer sciences (which study process using logic), we find that everything interesting happens at a magic balance of order and chaos. I recall reading that neuroscientists suspect that human brains work that way, too. And didn't Empedocles stress that Love and Strife needed to be held in tension?
Indeed, the COVID lockdowns strike me as a disease of too much Order, rather than too much Chaos. We are stifled by rules, rather than falling into incomprehensibility. (Even as those rules are, themselves, ridiculous.) I got this in a particularly direct way for a divinatory reading the other day, where my spirit contact characterized the government as an overly fussy and anxious mother who couldn't understand why her children didn't appreciate everything she does for them.