It was a mess. It was chaos.

Mistakes will bite you. I said to them after the game, ?Hopefully this game will get your attention.? We need to work harder.

People were vomiting, throwing up on the streets, kids were crying and screaming. It was chaos. And this happens every year. But medical people don't know how to deal with it. They don't speak the language of the workers. The clinics don't know how to recognize the symptoms. They give the workers aspirins and send them back to work.

(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” 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 behaviour, and then only if they have the capacity to act with a degree of freedom and randomness. Systems which lack structure and organisation usually fail to produce anything much, they just tend to drift down the entropy gradient. This applies both to people and to organisations.

He recovered and showed himself a leader, particularly during Katrina. Alabama escaped the chaos with FEMA that Mississippi and Louisiana had, and Riley was able to reclaim his glitter.

A bunch of chaos