Every day we as humans must find the balance between order and chaos. Some people are more comfortable when things are ordered while others of us like our chaos, though it is an organized chaos.
In rhetoric, this is also the case, as definitions of what was rhetoric and what wasn’t fell into place.
In the old world, order reigned, incorporating science, classical rhetoric, a quest for certainty, and acknowledgement that there could be a god out there, but we haven’t found him yet.
In the modern world, chaos was the preferred mode, focusing on human concerns, modern rhetoric, and an acknowledgement of uncertainty, taking more sophistic approaches.
Finding a balance between the two today is a task.
Of course, we must define “order” and “chaos.” There are 7 billion people on this earth and you would get 7 billion different definitions of those words. Order and chaos are both relative. As mentioned before, yes, my room looks like a tornado hit it, but I know exactly where everything is and that is an order to me. A neat freak, however, would see this as a disaster area and be so overwhelmed that finding anything would be impossible. Meanwhile I have a hard time finding something in a too-organized space.
Order and chaos are two concepts that will never truly be defined, since there are so many perceptions, much like many other vague words in the English language. Oh well.
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