“Officially,” this is all about like, totally acknowledging the existence of chaos in your life, man, and like, you know, learning to tame it.
How about no.
Some people see chaos as a Bad Thing, constantly throwing a monkey wrench into their carefully laid plans. Not us. Here at Devil Monkey Games, we don’t try to tame the chaos, we let it into the house and party with it. We don’t try to shove it down into the basement, we pour it a shot of tequila and stick a cheese board and crayons in front of it.
Seriously, how else do you explain the gorram car batteries in Projet Rokkit? Or the idea of taking a hovercraft and using it as a bumper car? Or the flying hammers? Or some of the AIs we’re working on?
Gorram chaos. That’s how.
“The human brain contains one hundred billion neurons, each neuron is as powerful as a large computer, and each neuron has around ten thousand connections with other neurons. Within our foreheads there is a chaos, inside our brains there is a galaxy of information, which is incomprehensible to our linear minds. This contrasts and compares perfectly with the chaos without. We’re living in a universe, which has one hundred billion galaxies, each galaxy with star systems, planets, a complexity, again, which to our minds right now is chaotic, incomprehensible.
Chaos is beautiful. Now many times we are afraid because we want order. We can’t deal with the confusion and disorder. We want form. We want rules. Yes, throughout human history there have been people — religious leaders, political leaders — who will give you order. They will give you rules and commandments. But chaos is basically good. Relax. Surf the waves of chaos and learn how to redesign your own realities. Sit back. Flow. Open your eyes. Turn off your minds. Unfocus, and let the waves of chaos roll over your brain. Float. Drift, Zoom. Design. Create new order, your order, your style from chaos. Yes, chaos.
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos. The religious leaders, the political leaders want to give you orders to run your life, to determine how you think. The basic goal is to operate your own mind. Think for yourself.”
Dr. Timothy Leary, How To Operate Your Brain
Granted, not every crayon scrawl chaos scribbles on the wall is necessarily a good idea. Ask the idiot who tried telling the dump truck “no, I have the right of way. You wait your turn,” right before blowing right through the stop sign how that worked out for him.
But a good chunk of the time spaghetti experimentation works pretty well. Throw it at the wall and see what sticks.
Chaos is good. Think for yourself. You’ll be amazed what can come out of it.
Unless that means acting like the Joker. Don’t do that. He was nuts. Don’t be him.