...[K]nowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to
be reduced to information so it can be organized ... [T]his leads you
to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge
itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that
threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is
simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic
reality of chaos.
-- William Gaddis. J R (1975). p.20.