Accepting chaos

People often struggle to accept the elusiveness of an extremely complex, globalized, and interconnected reality, where a seemingly minor event taking place in some obscure corner of the globe can upend their comfortable lives thousands of miles away.
They therefore tend to favor explanations that are at once simple to understand and fascinating to follow. A bit like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, whereas the most symbolically fitting cinematic model would actually be that of existential art-house dramas.
The most typical of these explanations involve monolithic mass-control plans operated by a small group of super-powerful individuals, all in cahoots, to screw over us billions of poor pawns.
Reality, of course, is more akin to a chaotic tangle, weaving together numerous control schemes, centers of power, mandarinates, random events, opportunism, insights, visions, mistakes, strokes of luck, and power dynamics. It is somewhat the translation onto a global level of what happens to us every day in our small, insignificant lives. We ourselves are tiny nodes of an extremely complex graph, and we experience this firsthand every single day: how can we think that the entire world can instead be simplified with a Japanese cartoon narrative?
The more you can accept, understand, and manage chaos, the more your feet remain planted on the ground and the better your chances of staying afloat. By following supreme-plot theories, on the other hand, you get lost in a parallel virtual reality that can easily turn into a genuine madhouse.
My advice: stay out of it. Better confused than crazy.

This post was machine-translated from Italian.