Everything tends toward chaos. Life - whatever that is - works against that trend. Literally. Using energy to move mass into orderliness. For a little while. Then chaos reigns again. Humans being one example of life - sometimes at least - have institutions that mirror life's tendency toward order. Maybe that's why human institutions for the most part seem to be designed (intentionally or not) to maintain the status quo or - if change is allowed - to promote more order. Less chaos. Stronger interpersonal bonds. More community. No killing (that's death and chaos). Lengthen life. Reduce death in general - or at least make it less random and more ordered. Less fighting (or - if fighting happens - to make sure our side remains in an orderly state while the other is sent off into chaotic hell).
We tend not to like things that throw our lives into chaos. Wars. Separation. Crashes. Illness. Killing. Destruction. Loss.
But in the end everything succumbs to the relentless pull of randomness. And the energy holding us together as a person or as a people is overcome by the energy pulling us apart. We contribute our molecules and atoms to the greater good. Only to be re-ordered in some other fashion once again. Maybe that's reincarnation. Or nirvana. Or heaven.
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About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.