Chaos (second part) - The word of the week. Massimo Sebastiani.
It's difficult to get out of your head and out ofYour linguistic habits that chaos is confusion. Yet, well before Nietzsche and therefore also Mao Zedong, there was a very different point of view on chaos: the idea, contained in the Greek etymology of the word, that it is an open space, full of possibilities before that things take on an order and define themselves. The ancient Greeks always called cosmos.