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Once you start believing you are separate from the world, itch to patch its cracks. You, of course, are fine. The real problem is the world and the people in it.
It’s hard to notice how we ourselves add to the chaos around us. And there is so much foolishness, bad intent, and disorder everywhere you look that it seems impossible to defeat it alone. Or is it?
The Belgian physical chemist and Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine studied systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. His key insight? A tiny fluctuation can push a disordered system to a new level of order in an instant.
Crystallization, chemical oscillations, animal swarms, the shadow economy, and human society — all of them are dynamic structures living between chaos and order. Like a whirlpool or a spinning vortex.
The human mind struggles to imagine any nonlinear process. So what can we say about the impact of one word or one action on the whole society? Especially when that society stands in the eye of the storm?
And what if you — without knowing it — turn out to be that small mustard seed that grows into a great tree and gives shelter to the birds of heaven?
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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