All things in the universe are interwoven, interconnected, and intra-chaotic. This is true of these 3 irrefutable forces that wreak so much havoc on the common senses of the world's intelligencia'Chaos Theory' at once dictates that chaos begets order, and thus chaos is the cause of all order
(The Nav’s Ed Note : The name "Chaos Theory" comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data. Systems that exhibit mathematical chaos are deterministic and thus orderly in some sense.)
'The Big Bang Theory' can be seen as a direct result of 'Chaos Theory'. From a microcosm of energy, where the universe was originally merely a pinhole of matter, it subsumed itself and exploded outwards, and continues to expand ever outwards at multiple speeds of light, growing the voluminous mass of our universe exponentially by the second
(The Nav’s Ed Note : The essential idea behid “The Big Bang” is that it is a cosmological model of the universe whereby the universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past and continues to expand to this day.)
Thai roads themselves are a direct example of how these two theories above are so correct, so inter-dependant, and so irrefutable. For on Thai roads chaos reigns, while in the country-side around these roads peace and order are prevalent - cows stand quietly chewing their cud, mange-ridden dogs sleep day and night, chickens are most active at 5 am when the cocks crow, and young men sit at 7 am rolling a local tobacco cigarello while supping a large bottle of Chang beer. All are at peace
And like 'The Big Bang', in the blink of a historical eye - or in this case in only a few decades - Thai freeways, motorways, highways, tollways, town roads, and multi-lane flyover junctions have exploded in number and geographic spread, and are now so ubiquitous as to make the local population of the humble Asiatic Elephant archaic and irrelevant - its ‘Mahout’ driver / owner only allowed to ride their pachyderm charges across Thailand after sitting and passing the Thailand Road Authorities Heavy Goods Vehicle Class 2 examination for self-propelled traffic. Quite an achievement if you consider that these elephant charges have longer years in school and greater intellect than their Mahout "Bosses"
For in driving on Thai roads one experiences all the chaos, construction, destruction, and wonderment of physics that is the greater universe. Every mode of every transport - including at times ocean-going vessels tens of metres in length - navigate the Thai road system from the mountains of the North, to the plains in the centre, to the seaside towns in the south. Bikes and buses and cars and trucks and vans and motorcycles and motorbikes and trains and on occasion planes. All play their part in making your journey on Thai roads seem a three-dimensional and at times light-speed atom-smashing experience
This as on Thai roads the human mind must be more powerful than a ‘Cray’ super computer in assessing the three dimensions of movements around you, more all-monitoring about possible on-road threats than the ‘NSA’ complex in Fort Meade in Maryland, and faster than an Formula One driver to communicate to your body to act to avoid these threats and safely bring your vehicle to its end destination
For in a mere mile of road tarmac you can be forced into figure of eights around domestic wild-life or road construction crews - leaning heavily on their work tools. Or you can be forced to swerve across five lanes of freeway to miss open flat-back trucks covered with farm workers sans crash helmets or seat belts, or to miss swerving concrete mixer trucks filled to the brim with their grey viscous matter, with their outlet pouring equipment flailing left and right like an out of control yacht sail boom. Or break to avoid inter-city buses that fly past you first on your left and then on your right, emitting a shockwave akin to a Russian armoured personnel carrier. Or observe on many an occasion Thai "Valentino Rossi's" snaking at speed through the traffic around you on their 125cc Yamaha motorcycles doing 130 kmph – hair sans crash helmet and flailing in the wind, and light white flannel shirt loose and also flailing mere inches from the bike chain
And there is one constant amongst all these Thai drivers' who are Masters of their own specific universe. They all smile, and they all have amulets of Buddha hung around their necks - and often sitting on their tongues - as they take their lives and the entire village life around them into their own hands
This is The Nav. Considering converting to Buddhism
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