Comment by tacitusarc
2 days ago
> No one is saying that chaos is good or order is bad. It’s that the binary itself is a function of our cultural mythmaking.
Respectfully, this is nonsense. Ask anyone who lived in Libya under Gaddafi and then in the years since, or who lived under any other despotic regime and compare it to the chaos that ensued when the despot is removed.
Civilization’s association with order is not random (or a function of “cultural myth making”); chaos _sucks_.
All myths contain a seed of truth. I can accept that living in Libya sucks while also accepting that our culture mythologizes order. I'm not sure how to see the world in such black and white terms - that acknowledging one invalidates the other.
But your original commentary paints the world's entire cultural backdrop as myth driven. There was no representation of this subtlety you now acknowledge must be addressed.
I'm sensing a certain uneasiness with the disorder of simultaneously truths. If anything, what you bring is a good example for the value of order manifest in rationality.
It's not a hypocrisy. Both are true. If that doesn't make sense, then remember curiosity is the cure to confusion.
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