When our lives are filled with conflict and contradiction, events have a way of producing a kind of unproductive energy that is slow to get worked out of our system. Slavery, the despoliation of American Indians, and the Civil War, are the more apparent examples of unresolved disorders that continue to disquiet us, like the symptoms of a chronic illness. The destruction of the World Trade Center towers last year appears to be another expression of this tendency, the entropic consequences of which continue to agitate beneath the surface of our daily lives. The study of “chaos” helps us to … Continue reading The State Is in a Terminal State