Dragaera

Double Helixes and Double Crosses (was: Favorite NON-fiction)

Chris Olson - SunPS Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM
Tue Jan 28 13:30:33 PST 2003

> Not from me. I respect your opinions.

You do?  Heh.... :)

> I got a profound insight on authority after reading (believe it or not) 
> Louis's Cooper's Time Master trilogy (excellent books, BTW). In her 
> world either the gods of order ruled or the gods of chaos ruled. There 
> was no balance. When chaos returns to power, instead of wiping out all 
> that was order, they simply stepped back and the let people of the 
> world worship who they wanted and live their lives as they saw fit.
> 
> Law and chaos are insperatable(sp) and one cannot thrive without the 
> other. Authority is good in so long as chaos is allowed to have its 
> part.

Authority can be good, in some ways, I'll agree.  Unfortunatly,
it has the tendency to create corruption and to heighten greed.

But I completely agree that chaos and order cannot be seperated.

Chris