Today we started off class by looking at a picture that seemed to have some kind of hierarchy theme. There are 7 different layers which all have organisms on them. Trees are at the bottom while god and his angels are at the top. There is an angel falling all the way down to hell which symbolizes satan. Each level in the picture represents a link in the chain that preserves order. Everything in Hell is not in order and it is all full of chaos while above hell everything is in cosmos. The group with the best observation said, “To preserve the order there has to be some type of higher figure to control the things below. This could be taken religiously or just in general like the President.” Then we read a short story called Rithmetic by BJ Novak. It was about a principal who decides to get rid of math from his school and then he gets fired shortly after. A theme that I took from this story was that when order is destroyed or destabilized, it corrects itself quickly. Math symbolizes order in this story and the principal completely destroys the order. A claim that this story makes is that a leader can create chaos easier than he/she can create cosmos. This is supported by the fact that the principal just calls the school into the auditorium and causes chaos very easily by cancelling math. The theme is supported by the fact that the principal is fired and order is restored relatively quickly.
The writer of the short story also plays Ryan in the Office and wrote some of the Office. I found some of the writing to be similar because it involves a leader figure who says absurd things and causes chaos just like the Office. The principal in this story is a lot like Michael from the Office. I enjoyed this story and found that it was pretty funny but nowhere near as funny as I found the Office and I think it is something to do with how funny Steve Carell is as Michael.
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