I once tried to teach junior high students about the relationship between order and energy or work. In a social experiment I had them put away books as fast as possible, while I timed them. The books were thrown onto the the shelves in no order at all. Then I told them that they had to be in order, upright on the shelves. With the stop watch ticking away, the kids still hurried as much as they could, but they also communicated a lot more and there were a couple who rose to lead the process and insure that the books were indeed in order.
I could give thousands of examples. Children naturally pull out every toy from the toy box and scatter them around the house. A park naturally becomes littered. Our houses become cluttered, as do our daily lives. Disorder, or "chaos" is easy and may, in fact, be a natural state within many systems. Order requires work and the expenditure of energy.
It is very easy to spot problems; it is a lot more work to solve those problems. Creating "order," creating solutions, and fighting entropy requires more time, energy, work, communication, and leadership. I believe it is a law of nature.
Hell is easy... Heaven on Earth will require a lot more work.
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