This puts me in mind of an interesting discussion nearly twenty years ago when "Mencius Moldbug" - i.e. Curtis Yarvin - argued that there the only good was lawful good, and that "chaotic good" was not actually good.
These terms derived from the early (but not earliest) versions of Dungeons and Dragons; which have orientation categories of good and evil, chaotic and lawful.
(There is also a "neutral" - neither good nor evil - orientation, which I cannot make any coherent sense of! In practice it seems to mean a short-termist, self-gratifying form of evil.)
As I understood him; Moldbug went on (in further essays) to argue that a good society must aim to be lawful, as much as possible, and without compromise...
Consequently - and having got close-to, but decisively rejecting, Trad Roman Catholic Christianity - Moldbug went-on to follow his own logic, and become the technocrat totalitarian-servant of evil that he is today.
Well, here Laeth argues that good Christians ought to become "chaotic" - because the lawful (in The West, implicitly) is now inverted, hence evil: i.e. the laws, regulations, officialdom, mainstream propaganda etc will, if obeyed, serve the agenda of demonic evil.
From his other writings I infer that Laeth is not really advocating chaotic behaviour as a goal (if such a thing is even possible!) - since creativity is, for him (as for me), a primary value - and creativity is not chaotic.
Law and chaos are not, for a Christian, the only two and exclusive alternatives; and neither is the ideal a half-way compromise between law and chaos, nor an alternation between them.
However, I think the sharp-point of this aphorism is to shock us into recognizing that good behaviour will nowadays, in The West, be regarded as at best chaotic; because the coherence of good is not recognizable to the "lawful" mind.
In other words; anyone whose behaviour is genuinely good, here-and-now and in 2024 - will be regarded as exemplifying and advocating chaos.
When totalitarian evil gets to define "lawful" then anyone good will be, whether they like it or not, regarded as outwith the law - for which Their only word is chaotic... at best; that is when Christian-good is not being regarded as simple evil.
In truth, the Good Man in 2024 is pursuing good as best he may in the context of a value-inverted world-order - therefore necessarily un-systematically (i.e. un-lawfully), in a spirit of loving creativity. From a mainstream perspective; this will look chaotic, but it ain't!
(From the long and wordy nature of my unpacking of one sentence, even if I've inferred correctly what Laeth is saying, can be seen the advantages of writing aphoristically!)
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