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 >> todo: bring in Mancur Olson and Theory of Groups >> see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancur_Olson wiki entry Mancur Olson] about how interests tend to coalesce over time and focus on protection of gains, stifling innovation... organizations become "congealed" (from("How Phil Falcone Was LightSnared" WSJ, Homlan W. Jenkins, Jr. 2/18/2012") and resist competition and protect the status quo
-==Order v. Chaos==
+==Order & Chaos==
+* humans dislike change
+* humans fear the unknown
+* humans yearn for predictability
+** think of religions, rituals, superstitions
+*** designed to bring order and predictability to a situation
+=== Order ===
+* social structures are primarily designed to bring stability to human interactions
+* order advantages
+** stability
+** predictability
+*** especially for commerce, food supply, peaceful existence
+* order disadvantages:
+** inequities inherent in any large social structure
+** inability to self-correct
+* consequences of too much order:
+** lack of feedback and information
+** dissolution and atrophy
+** systems decline, can't adjust to change
+** may lead to unintended negative consequences
+=== Chaos ===
+* chaos is either cause or effect of change
+* chaos as "change agent"
+* benefits of chaos:
+** correction
+** challenging inequities or innefficiencies in an overly-structured system
+=== ideal balance of order & chaos ===
+* healthy systems combine elements of both
+** creating predictability and stability
+*** while mitigating harms of overly structured system
+* feedback and self-adjustment without a need for drastic change
 == Certainty v. Uncertainty ==