Purpose at the edge of chaos

Chaos is a complex system ruled by discernable patterns where the agency of minute initial changes creates hugely different outcomes. The chaos system, while appearing predictable early on, thus cannot be predicted in its future outcomes. Also, if there are conscious forces of agency that perpetuate the deterministic chaos that is Lebanon from the perspective of a governance system, they appear to cherish obscurity. Our socioeconomic fate thus is uncertain as well as obscure on any time horizon, despite overwhelming evidence of dysfunctional public agency that underlies the problems of our economy. Secondly, even when discussing the survival strengths or the residual weaknesses of Lebanese public and private sectors, the full identity and extent of the chaos system tend to remain impervious to analysis. Perhaps this is because, by human reason, such an insidious, logic-defying system ought not to exist. By contrast to the unpredictability of the public system, however,