Order controls every single aspect of life. Chaos doesn't exist, it only appears to. Chaos Theory should be called Order Theory, because its central point is that seeming chaos is in fact order if you can step back far enough and take into account enough factors. The same holds true for the interactions of people. Using Adam Smith's reasoning on discovering the true cost of a common workman's shirt we can see that things that appear to be magical chaos are in fact quite orderly and sensible, but so vast in scale that individual simplicities create astonishing complexity.
A very simple example: the words I'm writing at this very moment are composed of several levels of order. The alphabet that makes up the words is an orderly system. The typeface is sans serif Helvetica, which is a consistent orderly system. The words I'm writing are English, which is a very simple and orderly language at root, but which has absorbed words from dozens of other linguistic traditions and so seems complex, to the point that every word I write has to be placed in an orderly context to understand its peculiar meaning. Then there's my particular style, which seems simple and natural to me, but to an expert linguist might display many characteristics that demonstrate my background and education, betraying an underlying order of which I am only vaguely aware.
That's just a few bits of the different levels of order required to answer your question. The computer I'm writing on has an OS that is based on the simplest of simple orderly systems: on/off. Yet a few billion of those ons and offs in a particular order allows me to simultaneously write this answer, listen to music, and check my email all at once.
Once you start to consider how different orderly systems interact, you'll probably give yourself a headache because it's so gigantic that the mind boggles. Even happens to geniuses, because lots of geniuses have thrown up their hands and given up trying to understand, and instead spend all their time trying to force what they perceive as chaos into an order of their own choosing. Marx and Lenin and Trotsky are excellent examples of genius gone wrong in that particular way.
Have fun figuring it out.
2007-09-05 10:29:43
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answered by thelairdjim 3
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Just about everything has an order or is ordered. Some are deliberate and others are structural.
Education is deliberate. We do one part before the other for a logical and controlled purpose. Growing up is structural. We grow in a certain order, but we don't have much say on it. There are some that are started by deliberate action and unroll on their own and vice verse. Such as stepping off a cliff, falling and hitting the ground (macabre sorry!) Or, having a bird poop on your shoulder, turning and cursing at it.
Anyways... most things, actions, and events that follow time lines are in order.
Note: there is more to it...but I hope this was enough!
2007-09-05 10:23:11
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answered by ikiraf 3
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Thoughts. Even a mind that races constructs thoughts in an ordered manner. Studying the emotions of others, you'll even find a order to the process of thinking and feeling. An example would be the "stages of grief" where we order our thoughts and emotions in a particular way.
2007-09-05 11:53:08
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answered by guru 7
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Order??? HAH!! Did Katrina teach you anything????? The LA riots??? Check all disasters you want and find out how few order actually works. It's only when people want it to, like that black out in New York that happened shortly after 911. People chose to act in an orderly fashion.
2007-09-05 10:25:27
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answered by Anonymous
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well, for instance there is an order in which we get our education [kindergarten, lower school, middle school, highschool, college, etc.]
there's an order of the months, and the weather, every year.
i also like to order my shoes by color.
there's a lot of order in life!
2007-09-05 10:05:09
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answered by Anonymous
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law and criminal cases i kno i have to have order to do my job as a parts manager for an rv dealership libraries use order n catagorizing books
2007-09-05 10:06:12
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answered by sam_freudiger 3
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