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THE DYNAMISM of CHAOS ...

Posted on May 26th, 2008 by

within the SERENITY of ORDER

"There can be little doubt that order has become a more important element in the
competitive mix than it used to be. The frontier spirit of Britain's industrial revolution or of US twentieth-century capitalism, with ALL its vigour, can make great ships and create giant oil companies, but IT DOES NOT foster the meticulous attention to detail and marketing that has enabled Japan to flood the world with video-recorders. The TOP-DOWN CONTROL by the bosses of Britain and America in the past has not proved as effective as the BOTTOM-UP SENSE of RESPONSIBILITY generated by the highly-educated workforce of Japan today. But if the added value in societies comes increasingly from services - for example, the programmes which are shown on the video recorders as opposed to the manufacture of the VCRs themselves - then societies must foster CREATIVITY alongside ORDER. At one extreme there is a society where people sit in rows and do what they are told. At the other there is one where everybody does their own thing.

The key to economic success in the future will be to find a way of balancing the two ... GROUP RESPONSIBILITY and INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY."

Hamish McRae

ALL great art, explores the tension between order and chaos, between growth and stasis, particularly exemplified by the way Katsushika Hokusai beautifully captured all aspects of the fractal world in his creation of "The Great Wave".

The scientists of change have learned in recent years that the evolution of complex systems can't be followed in the context of detailed cause & effect, because such systems are holistic, in that EVERYTHING affects EVERYTHING else. An understanding of these complex systems can only be established through a process of SEEING INTO their complexity and fractal geometry abundantly provides the mechanism by which this vision might be achieved.

In confronting the orders of chaos, of growth and stability, it would appear that we are now coming face to face with something which is buried in the very foundations of HOMO SAPIENS' existence, which would lead one to believe that learning to handle complexity means learning to live more intuitively, because intuition is the key to making significant changes in complex systems, helping them evolve and evolving with them.