On order in chaos

There is chaos all around us. Chaos at our workplace, chaos at our family, chaos in our minds, chaos in the city we live in, the state we are a part of, the country and chaos globally. Most people do not like chaos. They are always planning to bring order to things. The office affairs are managed with the change in top order. The chaos in the family could dissolve with outside intervention or breaking family ties altogether. Chaos in our minds needs therapy. Chaos in the state is the responsibility of the state government and the police. Chaos in the country is chaotically solved in the parliament and chaos globally is taken care of in the global forums.

The question I am pondering over is when is it the right time to bring order in a chaotic system and what kind of order should it be? Recently one of the states of our country which has been bleeding since independence is being brought into some sort of order. It has been subjected to a fixed and clear change in laws. The people in power wish to give it an order which they feel will improve the conditions of the state. There are debates all around the world on whether this ordering of the state is correct or not. Will such an ordering to an already troubled and chaotic system bring in peace and quiet? Or, will it deepen the trouble in which case the order would have given rise to further chaos.

A similar thing happens with a mentally ill mind. Suppose a person is suffering from schizophrenia. The mind of such a person is chaotic and troubled. As per the norms of a certain section of the society, an order has to be brought out in such a mind. A kind of Aristotelian order. If the person does not follow that particular order, then the person could be sent into systems where they will be forced to follow the order. Will such a strict adherence to order improve the person or get them more trouble? I hope you can see the similarities between the two examples here. How do we go about ordering then?

The answer to the when is as soon as possible. Which means if you know there is chaos and trouble, the effort should be made immediately to bring in some sort of order. People may differ on it but this is my opinion. It is the 'what' that is the big question here. What kind of order will a troubled system accept so that it can improve itself? In my opinion, the answer should come from within the system itself. Not from coercing of the powerless by the people of power in terms of a certain order but by letting the troubled system make an informed choice. If the 'what' comes from the system, then, in my opinion, the system is going to respond positively to the new order. Otherwise, the system will give a negative response and chances are high that it may end up in more trouble and chaos that its previous form.

   So in case of the state, it is the people who should be given the chance to get away from the chaos and the trouble. Forcing and ordering in my book will lead to further chaos. In the case of the troubled mind, it is the person who should be given a chance to choose the order they wish to accept. Such a process can take a long time where the state or the person will have to make certain compromises along with the compromises of the people in power. Nothing can come out of this world if we are not ready to compromise. But to put it more clearly, the veto should lie with the state or the person and not with the people in power. That, in my opinion, is the best chance of getting some sort of order in a chaotic and troubled system.