Some laws of nature are so encompassing, that nothing- absolutely nothing escapes from their effect. One such law is the "Second law of thermodynamics". Simply put it says, "The 'Entropy' of a closed system will always increase". Entropy is one measure of 'disorder'. Interestingly the corollary of this law gives us a beautiful definition (first elucidated by Arthur Eddington) of 'direction of time from past to present to future', the direction of time is positive when the entropy of a system has increased.
Viewing the world anthropocentrically one may feel that Humans are at the helm of creation, and their evolution is leading them to a higher and more complex structures, thus making them more and more organised, in every aspect of life. But this is a myth. One has only to look around to see that we are creating 'order', but in the overall system there is more 'disorder' or chaos. Industrialisation did make our life more orderly, but we all know that the pollution and green house gases we have generated has made our earth less habitable.
In politics and business too the systems that we have tried to create, be it the legislature, executive or judiciary, or for that matter, corporations, banks, stock-exchanges etc., are as good as the people who man them, and we have seen them totally disintegrate with just a few inappropriate people at the helm (or for that matter at any position in the system). Though we all agree that democracy is the best political system, we really are at a loss as to how we can empower the most appropriate person/persons?
I think that as time goes by we can expect more rather than less of 'chaos', surely the "Second Law" at work.
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