The Entropy of Creativity
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There is a law that governs not just physical systems but human ones: left alone, things fall apart. Disorder increases. Structures that once held meaning lose it. Energy dissipates. In thermodynamics, this is called entropy: the tendency of closed systems to move from order toward chaos. But the principle extends far beyond physics. It describes what happens to a mind that stops questioning itself, to a friendship that goes untended, to a culture that loses its capacity for self-examination. The question is not whether entropy applies to how we think, relate, and change. It does. The question is what counters it.