At times our lives seem like that of a tranquil island in a sea of chaos. The battle is to keep this sea of chaos at bay and not let it wash us away into utter chaos.

When in a hole, stop digging.

(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, discipline, and order involved, and doesn’t seem very chaotic at all. What would you say to such a person?)
A: I differentiate sternly between Chaos and Entropy. Only highly ordered and structured systems can display complex creative and unpredictable behaviour, and then only if they have the capacity to act with a degree of freedom and randomness. Systems which lack structure and organisation usually fail to produce anything much, they just tend to drift down the entropy gradient. This applies both to people and to organisations.

He recovered and showed himself a leader, particularly during Katrina. Alabama escaped the chaos with FEMA that Mississippi and Louisiana had, and Riley was able to reclaim his glitter.

A bunch of chaos

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”