Chaos and Anarchy and Why Can't They Just Get Along

      Experiential Chaos & Anarchy
 
You are experiencing both in my courses.
Not just as “concept” and “word,” but as
experience.  Experiential  education,
so to speak. Part of the Structure.
 
Gap (gape, chasm, yawn—an empty
space waiting for the order-to-random
dance to start up—originate.).
 
The experience of Chaos (void waiting
to be filled) is blocked out by the culture
filters (whelm filters, protecting us from
an overwhelming alma matrix big-time:
literally, the sense of hysteria (“of the womb”.)
 
IN other words: convention.
It keeps us “sane.” Sanitary.
Clean. Not dirty.
 
Without the “arches” in place holding up
the habits and habitats of a culture, convention,
community—well: that’s anarchy. No arches.
No leaders, kings,  rules & rulers, standards…
archetypes.
 
Good descriptive words: “chaos” and “anarchy,”
and  appropriately saturated in negative stigma
from inside any culture, convention, community,
addiction which rightly sees those  words as 
threatening  (evil) to sustaining the status quo.
 
I want to argue a paradox that the trickster
myth asserts: that the origins, liveliness, and
durability [sustainability] of cultures require that
there be space for figures whose  function it is
to uncover and disrupt the very things that
cultures are passed on.
 
Hyde is describing the TRICKSTER archetype.
 
See the problem? How to disrupt without
DISRUPTING? Or how to DISRUPT
without disrupting?
 
Among other things:  IT’s a language problem.
A problem in representation. A problem in
communication when the very tools of
communication themselves are
ambivalent instruments of
conserving  as well as
instruments of
disrupting.
 
How does a conscious system (individual or collective)
self-correct with out  demoralization?  OR: demoralize
without DEMORALIZATION?
 
IT’s a meta-sustainability issue.
IT’s a meta-environmental concern.  
IT, I said. Do I always have to be spelling IT out.
In the mean time—we’re putting chaos  and anarchy
into play. Or chaos and  anarchy are putting us into play.
 
Play and Be Played. School & Be Schooled.
Compose & Be Composed. Consume &
Be Consumed.   Call it the Liberal Art.
Life-long sport.