Explorations in Chaos

Essays exploring the Chaos Map and ideas mapped within it.

A path from relational order to chaos.

The Order and Chaos of Relationships

A guide to various types of relational order leading to the edge of chaos.

Relational Chaos, Death, & Progress

The Order and Chaos of Relationships

A futile attempt to describe the expressive, unstructured world of relational chaos.

Relational order is the foundation of any group

The Order and Chaos of Relationships

An exploration of the social norms and power structures that order our relationships.

Concepts transform our identity by reshaping our relationship with ourself

The War & Harmony Between the Relational & Conceptual Worlds

While much of our self-concept forms from mimetic connections with others, the most transformative connections come from connecting profound concepts to our relationship to ourselves.

Mimetic patterns form our identity & relationships

The War & Harmony Between the Relational & Conceptual Worlds

Our identity and worldview are shaped more by others than ourselves.

The Strange & Wonderful Relational World

The War & Harmony Between the Relational & Conceptual Worlds

How the strange and wonderful relational world generates human progress, art, and moves in harmony or war with its conceptual roots.

When the Chaff Burns Away

When Order Moves to Chaos

What survives and thrives when the old order collapses?

The Tyranny of Order in Decline

When Order Moves to Chaos

How order fails even in good times, why we need sacrificial leaders, and what makes order tyrannical.

Who to listen to when order moves to chaos

When Order Moves to Chaos

When order suddenly moves to chaos, our social fabric and systems formed over generations strain and break. Worse, we lack reliable patterns to employ as we attempt to repair the wrecked order we know and love.

Three Ways I Use the Chaos Map

I use the Chaos Map as a mental surface to think about all kinds of things on. In this short essay, I'll share three ways I've found it most useful that I hope are helpful to you as well.

An Animated Introduction to The Chaos Map

A 7-minute flyover of The Chaos Map that briefly covers each component. It's just enough for most people to start asking questions, but probably not enough to answer them.

Introduction to the Chaos Map: Chaos & Order

By visually mapping the optimal ways people relate to one another within any human system, we can make them more stable, creative, and harmonious.

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