Final Thoughts on Order and Chaos

Order and Chaos are two sides to the same coin. Although each is the opposite of the other, they are bound together and can never be separated into black and white alone. Tidy is to clutter as clutter is to clutter. Order and Chaos are mixed forces of positives and negatives forever circling each other without end. To continue with tidy vs. clutter, it is more a point of view shared by two (or more) different parties. If a person were to live in a cluttered house, to another it may appear as disorganized and Chaotic. To the person living in said house, the clutter could be an Order of itself and should the house be tidied the Order would be lost. Much like when a mother picks up a child's toys and the child cannot find them afterward.
Order or Chaos can be the outcome of the other. In some of our readings like 1984 there was a strict sense of Order which caused Chaos. In Order to make the party a complete power in their own right, the past had to be changed again and again keeping the party from fault. Smith says in confusion, "I understand HOW: I do not understand Why". Smith is driven to Chaos to escape the Order of the party that he sees as unjust.
A Burial at Thebes and Night are similar because a overly Orderly act causes a Chaotic outcome. In A Burial at Thebes it is King Creon's Order that causes those around him to change into Chaos because they view his Order and Chaotic; Chaotic in the sense that he is one man giving Orders without regard to the wishes of the people. In Elie Wiesel's Night the Nazi party have Ordered the death camps of the Jews and other people believed unfit for Nazi Germany. The Order causes Chaos among the Prisoners who do not know if they will live until sunset from day to day.
The Chaos Theory as spoken about by Prof. Jacobson in his lecture is a case where Chaos can help form Order. By using the Chaos Theory, people have been able to complete complex mathematical problems that Order was to strict to solve. Dynamical systems which are a form of Chaos can create graphed lines which in math a line has Order.
Order and Chaos cross paths more often than most believe.
Things like "classify", "organize", and "discipline" were all cases of what we believed were Order in the beginning of the term. To classify animals into biological kingdoms is Order but it is also Chaos because not all animals are a simple one or the other. Tomatoes for the longest time were called a vegetable but are now classified as a fruit. As given above, to organize something may cause chaos because organization is more in the eye of the one that placed it there much like my room. Discipline in the military is very Orderly, but can cause thus under the Order to strike out in Chaos much like a lot of the stories members of the military will tell about how they and some buddies once placed a officer's bed in the showers.
As opposite things like "free-for-all" and "spontaneous" were thought to be Chaos at the beginning of the term, so too has our outlook on them changed. Nature can be one of the most Chaotic elements ever to exist. Storms the form possibly from the Butterfly Effect, trees growing on random stone pillars while fields remain bare, nature is the mother of free-for-all. Nature, however filled with Chaos, does form a natural Order. This natural Order is a constant that does not change. Spontaneous is a true flower of Chaos. To be spontaneous is to have as little to do with Order as possible. The natural Order keeps any spontaneous action within a realm however which limits the Chaotic forces behind it.
As this term comes to a close, Order and Chaos to me has proven that nothing is just as it is. Nothing is Order and nothing is Chaos, it just has different amounts of one or the other to different people. Finding how much is a personal test.

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