All 5 Uses of
chaos
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known.†
Part 1 *
- The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.†
Part 2
- Scientifically produced antiscience...chaos.†
Part 2
- Unlike the multitude of romantics who are disturbed about the chaotic changes science and technology force upon the human spirit, Phaedrus, with his scientifically trained classic mind, was able to do more than just wring his hands with dismay, or run away, or condemn the whole situation broadside without offering any solutions.†
Part 2chaotic = confused and disordered
- I think it's the overwhelming presence of these irrational elements crying for assimilation that creates the present bad quality, the chaotic, disconnected spirit of the twentieth century.†
Part 3
Definition:
a state of extreme confusion and disorder