“Oh yes, oh certainly, and wasn’t that just like flesh-and-blood? While leafy patterns and crystalline order were nature’s dusty and mysterious way, chaos was humanity’s true predilection. Oh, they claimed to fight against it, decreed their flimsy law and order, filed the world into compartments, imposed gleaming tight perimeters around their telelinks.But finally, ultimately, humanity always hearkened back to carelessness, forgetfulness, willfulness. The wild glee of riots, drinking binges, dropping out; the bloody glee of revolutions. Humanity was nature’s bad child.”