A little chaos may be a good thing
Our brains crave order, but it's not always what's best for our politics
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One of the accounts of creation in the Book of Genesis more or less suggests that God’s role was to make order out of chaos. If that’s so – and who am I to second-guess writing that has survived 26 centuries or so? – then at least two reactions seem reasonable.
First, we should take hope, folks: The chaos of our lives these days – pandemic, violence, pol…