Human Disorder

‘And so we will have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.’ How ironic that Famous Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes should be quoted as having said exactly that in Where Do We Go From Here; Community or Chaos(?) when we will soon be facing the choice of whether or not to re-elect a black president.

Chaos is an Ugly Word

And it is an even uglier state of being. Turmoil, disarray, bedlam, a state of utter disorder and confusion; a total lack of order and organization. This is chaos. Is this America? Napoleon Bonaparte himself had a view of chaos appropriately befitting an emperor: ‘The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies’. Then again, he also said that ‘Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever’. ‘Nuff said.

Chaos is My Friend

At least that’s what Bob Dylan thought when he said, ‘chaos is a friend of mine’. Bob Dylan had a number of things to say about chaos in fact. He admitted ‘I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me’. And an interesting quote concerning Americans and what we seek and stand for… ‘we adore chaos because we love to produce order’. Sadly I must agree. How many times has America, as a whole, joined in somewhere where they weren’t invited to try to gain or restore order. Apparently it’s just what we do.

So apparently it’s all in the way you look at it, as with almost anything in this world. Where would we be without it; for according to Frederick Nitschke, ‘out of chaos… Comes order’.