Not yet, but soon (4)

But, chaos theory. As I said, it does not choose chaos over order, but instead it simply identifies chaos as a more complex form of order. We feared it because we thought chaos meant a loss of control (and boy, do we dig control), but the theory showed us that through ‘chaos’ – and I use this term loosely, as it has little to do with hooligans at a sports match – we could sustain or even increase our level of control, while greatly improving both individual and collective freedoms. As we began to realize that everything is tied in to everything else, we learned how to influence without interfering, by adjusting the elements we can control directly, to change the elements we don’t control. One of the greatest achievements so far is that every single citizen of the Human Empire now has common sense. It wasn’t that hard, really; all that was needed was a high standard of education across the board. Now, this wasn’t a walk in the park, a good education costs more than a nickel and a dime, but it brought down expenses in nearly every other area of the government budget, simply because less people were needed for control and repression. The reason it took humanity so long to figure this out, was that everyone was convinced that common sense was tied into a person’s intelligence. Don’t know why, really, the world isn’t that hard to understand if you receive the means to understand it a young enough age. But you all know that, of course, unless you’re one of those lunatics of the Moon Values Coalition who keep yammering about ‘the glory days of the free market’. Or perhaps if this manuscript has somehow traveled back in time to a point before the Chaos Revolution, but that seems highly unlikely.