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the chaos that arrives uninvited, stays too long, and somehow rearranges your furniture.
means a state of great disturbance, confusion, or agitation, whether in the world around you or the mind within.
from An English word from the 16th century, of obscure birth. The popular guess links it to the French 'tremouille' — the hopper of a mill that constantly shakes grain — but that connection is unproven. Its early sense was the bustle and commotion of toil and trouble, and the word itself has never quite settled down, fittingly enough.
- latin root
- likely from turbare, to disturb or stir up
- physics cousin
- turbulence and turbid share the same chaotic DNA
- shakespeare loved it
- appears across his plays describing political collapse
- the brain
- stress floods cortisol, literally rewiring decision-making circuits
- creative fuel
- upheaval drives more art than calm ever has
for instance
syrian civil war — conflict that began in 2011, killing over 500,000 people and displacing 12 million
yugoslav wars — series of ethnic conflicts 1991-2001 that broke apart the country into seven nations