#chaos

(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. ↗

— Peter J. Carroll

#chaos-magic #chaos-magick #magick #freedom

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#also #catch #chaos #continual #exhausting

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#become #bringing #chaos #could #devalued

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home. ↗

— John McCain

#follow #genocide #home #iraq #must

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ↗

— Henry Miller

#reality #score #upon #which #written

We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos. ↗

— Graham Nash

#chaos #especially #get #good #good music

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. ↗

— Ilya Prigogine

#chaos #mechanism #order #out #time

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#celebrity #chaos #i #infatuation #love

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#chaos #classical #classical music #craved #happening