Organized Mess

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Another way of talking about the web
 Is that there are different levels of magnification
 For example, supposing you take a piece of embroidery
 And here it is, obviously, in front of you
 An ordered and beautiful object
 And then you take out a microscope
 And you look at the individual threads
 At a certain point, as you turn up the microscope
 You'll get a hopeless tangle
 Which doesn't make any sense at all
 The wrapped fiber that constitutes the thread is a mess
 Hasn't been organized, nobody did anything about it
 But at the level of magnification
 At which you actually see it with the naked eye
 It's all been organized
 It's all been organized
 It's all been organized
 It's all been organized
 Alright, now keep turning up that microscope
 Take one of those individual threads in the fiber
 That seems to be so chaotic, and go into the constitution of that
 And again, you'll find fantastic order
 You'll find the most gorgeous designs of molecules
 Then, keep turning it up
 And again, at a certain level you'll find chaos again
 Alright, keep going
 And at another level you'll find there's marvelous order
 Now, you see, order and randomness constitute
 In other words, the warp and the woof
 Where everything is in order
 Everything's under control; in randomness, it's all
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 But we wouldn't know what order was
 Unless we had messes
 It's the contrast of order
 And messes that order itself depends upon
 And so in exactly the same way
 It is the contrast of on and off, there and not there
 In other words, life and death, being and non-being
 That constitutes existence
 Only, we pretend that the random side of things
 The disorderly side of things, could possibly win in the game
 Of competition or I would rather call it
 Collaboration between the two
 When you lose sight of the fact that the order-principle
 And the random-principle go together
 That's exactly the same predicament as losing sight of the fact
 That all individually delineated things and beings
 Are connected underneath
 You know, just like mountains stick out of the Earth
 And there's a fundamental Earth underneath them
 So all of us, as different things, we stick out of reality
 And there's a continuity underneath but you ignore that, you see?
 That's the thing that's left out
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 It's all been organized
 But it's a mess
 See? I'm just giving you many examples of the same principle
 

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Duration
04:53
Key
9
Tempo
130 BPM

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