(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magic” has a lot of rules, discipline, and order involved, and doesn’t seem very chaotic at all. What would you say to such a person?) A: I differentiate sternly between Chaos and Entropy. Only highly ordered and structured systems can display complex creative and unpredictable behavior, and then only if they have the capacity to act with a degree of freedom and randomness. Systems which lack structure and organization usually fail to produce anything much, they just tend to drift down the entropy gradient. This applies both to people and to organizations.