Chaos is everywhere, we encounter it only in the areas that we are well conversant with
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threestrongcoffees：
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>> Chaos is everywhere, we encounter it only in the areas that we are willing to face it.
That’s for sure so. However, we need to have a lot of free time to name what is what even then. We recognize the chaos when we experience the loneliness- personal needlessness. The last makes me think, the chaos should be named the self-defense.
DSvT: That’s a nice one.
Tomas: Chaos may not be self defence but getting into one surely make one self-defensive. Because the point is that once we encounter chaos, in the area we are well conversant with, we try to show that we are really well-conversant and this should not be happening to us.
Very interesting. The realization that the world is chaotic can be frightening—-when we’re young, I think the natural instinct is to find safety and security in the protection of authority (usually Mum and Dad). We assume that they—and most grownups too—have got things under control.
It’s quite a shock when we realize that to some extent people have so little control or understanding of the events in their lives. And it becomes even more of a shock, sometimes, when it happens to us—especially in those “well conversant” areas.
If chaos can happen even in areas we are deeply familiar with, how deep indeed is our familiarity?
Or maybe we should judge familiarity based on how we respond to chaos?
….I’m rambling!
[...] This is an expansion of a comment I posted on One Line @ a Time. Really great blog, [...]
gukseon: Chaos in unfamiliar area is mostly ignored by us because we believe we hardly know the background and context and so whether it is normal or chaos is really subjective. I kind of agree when you say “maybe we should judge familiarity based on how we respond to chaos” but then it is also possible that “familiarity is the only indication on how we will maneuver when we encounter chaos”
Hmm, I hadn’t thought of it like that before….very true! Maybe a hallmark of an unfaimiliar area is that we are unable to distinguish chaos from order?
gukseon: Yep