Because of our success in constructing negentropes, new sources of chaos and confusion beset our world. Too many of our negentropes have been developed within too limited a context. Fire protects us against cold, but its by-product, greenhouse gases, threatens global warming. One man's picnic-table is another's ravaged rainforest. Nuclear weapons may suppress the chaos of war, but they also open up the chasm of total self-destruction.
Religions stabilise individual cultures but wreak intercultural havoc.
The road to Hell is paved with flawed negentropes. The problem with negentropes is that, flawed or not, it's very hard to get rid of them. Our technological and cultural negentropes have become so widespread that they are forming a new chaotic context in their own right.