Chaos Theory

Here's the thing about chaos theory. Actually, I hate the expression 'Here's the thing about X'. As if there's only one thing to be said about something, like 'Here's the thing about the universe...It exists'. But what seems strange about chaos theory is that, although it's a theory about how seemingly unrelated events might influence each other, the example is always something like a butterfly flapping its wings and then a bridge collapsing. Why is it always a small event indirectly causing a big one? Actually, I don't know anything about chaos theory. Is chaos theory always when something small causes something slightly bigger and then slightly bigger again until something massive results? That can't be true. Because then every tiny event would spiral out of control and combine together into a raging whirlwind that destroyed the world. If it's only very few small events that snowball into much bigger ones, then who cares about the theory at all? Fuck it, I say, if a butterfly farting occasionally causes an earthquake. If it happens so seldom, then it's insignificant. And even if someone fucking up a skateboard trick led to 9-11, it's not like anyone could have guessed and done anything about it. So that leaves us with influence in both directions, from the small to the big and the big to the small. If that were the case, and it works both ways, shouldn't we sometimes hear examples like 'If a bridge collapses, somewhere a butterfly is flapping its wings'? Or, 'Maybe, World War 2 made my dog fall the river'. I might read a book about chaos theory.