A short YouTube talk by Chris Collins arguing that culture functions as order opposite to chaos. He links chaos to many contemporary issues—elections, mental health, the economy, social media, and wars—and cites James Gleick’s book Chaos: Making a New Science to show how chaotic behavior appears across disparate systems and affects decision-making in business, astronomy, and political theory.
The thing about culture is, what we misunderstand about it is that it's the opposite of chaos. And so culture is order in a. In a sense, right? And in life, there's a lot of areas that chaos kind of comes into play. Especially, you know, you talk about the. The election. There's a lot of chaos created on purpose during that, which then feeds to the. The idea that there's a lot of mental health issues, that people are unstable, they're depressed, they have anxiety. That's. That's chaos of the mind, right? There's chaos in the economy or perceived chaos in the economy with inflation. We have chaos in social media. We have the chaos of all of the wars that are going on, but chaos is all around us. And the. The first book we pulled here is this one by James Gleek and Chaos Making a New Science. And he. He kind of says, in here, chaos appears in the behavior of the weather, the behavior of an airplane in flight, the behavior of cars clustering on an expressway, the behavior of oil flowing in underground pipes. No matter what the medium, the behavior obeys the same newly discovered laws. That realization has begun to change the way business executives make decisions about insurance, the way astronomers look at the solar system, the way political theorists talk about the stresses leading to an armed conflict.
