The Order and the Struggle to Maintain Order
The moral case for ensuring chaos doesn't overwhelm you and the function of order.
People like when things work out the way they planned.
If you're going on a trip, you prefer to get there on time or even early. When you get to the place you're going, you want whatever you're going for to be there for you. Along the way, you want everything to be the way you think it should. Any time you don't have that happen, you get frustrated and angry because it takes extra effort to get to where you want. To achieve the things you want to achieve. You like these things because it gives you a sense of moving forward. Of doing things that matter even if it's just for the simplest of things like getting to work or making it to a date. More than that, it feels like there's a process involved in the universe. That things are working the way they should.
Otherwise it feels like the world has no purpose. No greater goal or idea that we're working towards. It can end up feeling as if everything is just chaos and destruction at all times. Which naturally leads to wondering why do anything at all? As a way of coping, we do everything we can to limit the potential for chaos in our lives. We create rules of the road so that everyone who is travelling knows how to reduce the amount of uncertainty. If everyone is following the same rules, then it's much easier to know when other people aren't doing it.
Which makes punishing people a lot easier. You're supposed to be aware of what the rules are, so you must have done something wrong if you didn't. Even in a situation like that though, there tend to be mistakes. Things people couldn't possibly have known beforehand was going to happen. But even there we have a process for that. We know how to deal with things that don't conform to the rules. We set up whole systems of rules for almost every scenario we can think of and ways to deal when something we didn't predict happens. A world like that feels safer, more orderly.
The Order is very much about what it's like to live within such a system. Jack Morton, as played by Jake Manley, is someone who hasn't had a lot of order in his life. A lot of things have happened to Jack which don't conform to any of the rules as he understands it. Like there are rules beyond the ones he knows about and if only he could understand what those rules are, his world would make a lot more sense. He could come to terms with chaos around him. Which leads him to seek out The Order, a group that seems to know about those hidden rules. They might even be the ones creating the rules in the first place. Or at least it looks that way from outside the system. But along the way he realizes that even they don't necessarily know all the rules.
Chaos is everywhere, even in things which seem to be well structured. So it's up to them to figure out a better set of rules to work within that work better.
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You can watch The Order on Netflix.
I agree with everything you wrote, Andrew! Wonderful article :) Subscribed and I am definitely going to continue reading your articles. 👍️
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