Disorder

Disorder is everywhere. It’s a miracle that people organize the way they do to act generously toward something or someone bigger than themselves.

But because we are so used to this level of chaos, because it is so ubiquitous, we try to find patterns to make sense of things.

Patterns ground humans and give us a more predictable future. But we can’t be seduced into believing that patterns mean the absence of disorder.

The bottom line: Our brains are so trained to find a pattern that we ignore the explanation right before us.