The Law of Eristic Escalation indicates that the longer order prevails, the more the thwarted energies of balance (Chaos) build, the stronger the effect of the ensuing disorder. 1. * A career dissident, one who is a master of creating disorder, ends up in an ordered grey box. 2. * A man who drinks heavily for years until his behavior is out of control is sent to rehab by a judge, and becomes a proselytizing teetotaller. 3. * An anarchist youth grows up to be a politician. 4. * A crowd in apparent mayhem, when faced with additional mayhem in the form of a crisis, naturally orders itself until the crisis passes.