[MD] Quality and Chaos

[david buchanan]

Krimel said:
So like Dave you don't get what this means? Chaos is not a state of complete disorder. It is more like the field of possibility. Order emerges from it. It is neither orderly nor disorderly. It is both. ...


dmb says:

I don't get what this means because "chaos" is NOT a state of complete disorder? Oh. Okay. Sorry.

It's just that I always thought "chaos" meant exactly that. Some of the blame has to be given to those darn dictionaries, which are really are so confusing these days. For example, mine says "chaos" is a noun and that it means, "complete disorder and confusion". So naturally, I thought that's what you meant when you used the term. Now I see that "chaos" refers to the field of possibility from which order emerges. It is NOT complete disorder. Instead, "chaos" is neither orderly nor disorderly AND it is both orderly and disorderly. Right, I've got it now and it makes perfect sense to me. 
The confusion was caused by my own lack of imagination, by my own lazy habit of leaning on standard meanings and definitions. Obviously, those hacks over at the dictionary factory are a bunch of weasel-word spewing bullshitters. It's almost as if their whole reason for being was to confuse people about the proper use of terms. It's like they just don't give a damn about human communication. It's almost like they take pleasure in creating a state of confusion and disorder. I wish there was a name for the state of complete disorder and confusion that they've created.
Oh, I know what to call it; a dictionary! 
dictionary |ˈdik sh əˌnerē| (abbr.: dict.)noun ( pl. -aries)
complete disorder and confusion : snow caused dictionaries in the region.


Anyway, thanks for taking time to straighten me out, Krimel.