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This is a theoretical thought up for debate with the aim to discuss what would it take to discover new methods to cause chaos.
"Chaos" is simply put a trigger which causes a person or group of people to panic in an uncontrolled manner.
This is likely not easy to do and difficulty of achieving chaos depends on who and how many people are targeted.
Achieving such a monumental task is not impossible but it requires careful planning, time and innovation, and the best way to start is to look at real world examples...
I often think about methods which people used with the aim (or by accident) to create chaos or disturbance in societies with various goals, duration lengths and successes.
Historically, examples like stories about vampires and witchcraft and probably the best modern day examples are conspiracy theories.
Also movements like anarchism, secret societies, new types of religions or occult societies are also examples, although goals of these are not necessarily to make chaos but these have or had the potential to make one.
Another valid example of chaos is public unrest, ex. protests where mobs of people destroy streets and storm buildings.
Causing chaos doesn't have to be directed toward some society or wide public, a single person or married couple could be targeted as well.
According to these examples I would say a good method to cause chaos doesn't end up on just being a story or an idea, idea is just a starting point, which then must manifest itself in reality, ex. some society or person accepting it as possibility or fact, which then in the end has the potential to cause disturbance or panic.
According to this, causing chaos is a 3-step process:
1. Innovation of a story or an idea in privacy or among small group of people.
2. Share of the idea in public or to a specific person.
3. Something special which will trigger chaos (materialization of first 2 steps)
Per point 1, Innovation of an idea assumes it's not shared publicly until detailed plan is made taking into account possibilities of failure and how to deal with them.
If you ask me, a framework of an idea itself would consist of 2 portions:
A) esoteric part (by definition something which is known only to small group of people, or only you)
B) exoteric part (by definition something which is shared and\or widely known)
esoteric and exoteric portion of an idea are tied together in such a way where it's very difficult to unlock esoteric meaning based on exoteric.
example such as, hearing lies without knowing or thinking about the motive for lies, here, lies are exoteric, and the motive for lies is esoteric.
Point 2 assumes sharing the exoteric portion of an idea, such as whispering or media.
Point 3 is trigger for chaos.
In previous example of lies, a trigger could be a false claim such as false origin and motive for lies which might result in victim attacking the wrong person.
Which in turn may end up in revenge, leading to chain of uncontrolled events.
The purpose of causing chaos doesn't have to be to harm someone, it could also be to have fun watching someone loosing control.
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All said so far is just a theory on causing chaos.
A much bigger problem though is that in modern day of life causing chaos is much more difficult than in some historical context.
One good example is French revolution, a chaos where mobs of people hang people and cut their heads of on public square.
Another example is witch hunt which caused a bunch of women being burned or hanged.
Achieving such chaos today is almost impossible we may agree, this suggests that new methods should be discovered if one wishes to achieve anything.
One serious obstacle is that most countries today have the so called psy-ops, governmental body which might disrupt your plan.
One modern day example of innovation is conspiracy theories, however conspiracy theories are no longer a thing, it's easy to tell when something is conspiracy and also things get flagged as conspiracy, especially if it touches the government.
Thus something very new is needed, something not yet tried, not yet seen.
What do you think, what new methods could have the capacity to cause wide spread panic?
What sorts of societies could be targeted for best results?
Do you think it's worth the effort to cause chaos?
Do you think a mage like sauron from the master of the rings is possible today?
sauron dedicated to bring darkness and evil upon the world.
"Chaos" is simply put a trigger which causes a person or group of people to panic in an uncontrolled manner.
This is likely not easy to do and difficulty of achieving chaos depends on who and how many people are targeted.
Achieving such a monumental task is not impossible but it requires careful planning, time and innovation, and the best way to start is to look at real world examples...
I often think about methods which people used with the aim (or by accident) to create chaos or disturbance in societies with various goals, duration lengths and successes.
Historically, examples like stories about vampires and witchcraft and probably the best modern day examples are conspiracy theories.
Also movements like anarchism, secret societies, new types of religions or occult societies are also examples, although goals of these are not necessarily to make chaos but these have or had the potential to make one.
Another valid example of chaos is public unrest, ex. protests where mobs of people destroy streets and storm buildings.
Causing chaos doesn't have to be directed toward some society or wide public, a single person or married couple could be targeted as well.
According to these examples I would say a good method to cause chaos doesn't end up on just being a story or an idea, idea is just a starting point, which then must manifest itself in reality, ex. some society or person accepting it as possibility or fact, which then in the end has the potential to cause disturbance or panic.
According to this, causing chaos is a 3-step process:
1. Innovation of a story or an idea in privacy or among small group of people.
2. Share of the idea in public or to a specific person.
3. Something special which will trigger chaos (materialization of first 2 steps)
Per point 1, Innovation of an idea assumes it's not shared publicly until detailed plan is made taking into account possibilities of failure and how to deal with them.
If you ask me, a framework of an idea itself would consist of 2 portions:
A) esoteric part (by definition something which is known only to small group of people, or only you)
B) exoteric part (by definition something which is shared and\or widely known)
esoteric and exoteric portion of an idea are tied together in such a way where it's very difficult to unlock esoteric meaning based on exoteric.
example such as, hearing lies without knowing or thinking about the motive for lies, here, lies are exoteric, and the motive for lies is esoteric.
Point 2 assumes sharing the exoteric portion of an idea, such as whispering or media.
Point 3 is trigger for chaos.
In previous example of lies, a trigger could be a false claim such as false origin and motive for lies which might result in victim attacking the wrong person.
Which in turn may end up in revenge, leading to chain of uncontrolled events.
The purpose of causing chaos doesn't have to be to harm someone, it could also be to have fun watching someone loosing control.
~~~~~~~~
All said so far is just a theory on causing chaos.
A much bigger problem though is that in modern day of life causing chaos is much more difficult than in some historical context.
One good example is French revolution, a chaos where mobs of people hang people and cut their heads of on public square.
Another example is witch hunt which caused a bunch of women being burned or hanged.
Achieving such chaos today is almost impossible we may agree, this suggests that new methods should be discovered if one wishes to achieve anything.
One serious obstacle is that most countries today have the so called psy-ops, governmental body which might disrupt your plan.
One modern day example of innovation is conspiracy theories, however conspiracy theories are no longer a thing, it's easy to tell when something is conspiracy and also things get flagged as conspiracy, especially if it touches the government.
Thus something very new is needed, something not yet tried, not yet seen.
What do you think, what new methods could have the capacity to cause wide spread panic?
What sorts of societies could be targeted for best results?
Do you think it's worth the effort to cause chaos?
Do you think a mage like sauron from the master of the rings is possible today?
sauron dedicated to bring darkness and evil upon the world.
