¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 {Many url references to chaos and disorder at the end}

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Once I interpreted/created a useful distinction between two concepts, which I labeled “chaos” and “disorder”.  I remember a motivating quote, related to the Greek origins of the word: “Chaos is the font of order“: Order emerges from Chaos; whereas disorder is the result of the decay of order. In many situations chaos precedes order.

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 I believe this distinction, between the positive CHAOS and the negative DISORDER, is one – of many – we need to make to survive/thrive. The many wildly different uses of these two terms by many famous persons – as revealed in these quotes – illustrates that this distinction is not well known.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Imagine the superposition of 50 songs – it would sound like noise (disorder), “possess a randomness”. But with an algorithm, one might retrieve each song. This is a crude metaphor for chaos, in my usage of the term.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 As scientists begin to discover a new domain, their early works often appear as chaos – a moving towards order. The “order” ascribed to “established theories” is actually added by those who “tune up” the initial semiotic forms as presented by the original innovators. For example: Newton, Darwin, Einstein, The Quantum Team.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 In metamorphosis, the caterpillar decays into disorder, while the imaginal buds appear in chaos as they emerge as the viable and beautiful, ordered biology, the butterfly.

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 The collapse of society today produces disorder. The work of activists trying to organize is initially chaotic, leading hopefully to viable order.

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Much use of the phrase “order out of chaos” confuses the distinction.

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 There is a call, by many: we must first destroy old order so that new order may spontaneously arise. This hypothesis, for the spontaneous (unintentional, leaderless) emergence, by fragments from the collapse of order (disorder) has zero verification – it is a deceptive myth. New order doesn’t arise from the fragments in disorder. However, nu order emerging (but not yet  “adequately ordered”) appears as disorder (but is chaos).

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 A variation is the cliche that “things must get worse before they can get better“. A rationale for this belief is that the opposition or block to change must be first removed (destroyed, becoming disordered) to permit the new to emerge. This ignores the nature of emergence to first have the appearance of chaos (a lack of order – but not disorder). The blocking of emergence is a real and significant factor, but the removal of the block is never sufficient.

¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 That “agency by activists creates the new order” is also a myth. The planning and actions by early activists never strongly determines the new emergent order, although Founding Revolutionaries do leave their mark.

¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 References – confusion of different meanings for these terms. Scientific, Current re Trump, & Alternative Media.

¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0  ——————– SERIOUS/ACADEMIC
As synonyms:
In physics:
Philosophical:
Cosmogony / Chaos:
Chaos to Cosmos
Stuart Kauffman Sciences of Complexity and “Origins of Order” 1991 pdf :
Kauffman, “Origins of Order“, Book Review 1993:
Ilya Prigogine – Order Out of Chaos  book 1984:
James Gleick: Chaos: Making a New Science  book   1987:
Dee Hock – Chaordic Organizations:

¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0    ——————– CONTEMPORARY /HISTORIC

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 Many Quotes about Chaos, Order, and Disorder
Chaos vs Order: The Root of Ideology Jon Hanson (short video)
Trump > Order Out of Chaos:
An interesting view of BRICS being Order Out of Chaos:
Orwell Today website | Order Out of Chaos, Staged Events (current):
Alex Jones Conspiracy Theory – Order Out of Chaos:
Revolution > Order Out of Chaos:
Nietzsche’s “From chaos, comes order”
Freemasonry ORDO AB CHAO – Gnostic Warrior website:

¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 ——————– ALTERNATIVE

¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 Self Help Website for Students – Order Out of Chaos FaceBook:
RealTime Paradigm Blog by Joan, Out of Chaos Comes Order:
Pattiann Rogers, POEM: The Origin of Order:
 A Mathematical Symphony – Chaos and Order – Video Production:
Prince – Album and Song – Chaos and Disorder: