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Order (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠your world sometimes has to be made dreadful, so that you recoil from being too far outside yourself.

Order (n.) hides ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in all chaos, a fixed law in all caprice — for everything that works is grounded on its opposite.

Order (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made according to what you know, by a selfish wish that pushes the thoughts of chaos out — yet they exist.

Order (n.) not ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠integrated by consciousness will break in by surprise and violence — the first symptoms are totalitarianism and State slavery.

Order (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what drew nearly every German to Hitler — but they chose disorder's chief victim, a man of unchecked greed, to lead them; greedy for power, they were just as greedy for order.

An Order (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the religious kind is made first by the grace of God and second by a majority of highly insignificant people — its nobles must know their unfreedom, dependence and nullity, not their uniqueness.

Order (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always a cage, as disorder is always destructive, Jung wrote in 1936; freedom is a minority's privilege won at others' expense, and the modest Swiss keep just enough air not to suffocate.