I think there's an ego attachment to standards, in that regard. Preference (or awareness), possibly a map from personal experience, observation, to future prediction. One has to make the best decisions they can given the information they have accessible, but most real world systems are simply too chaotic, too dynamic to go uninfluenced via the most subtle perturbations. The untrained eye that does not see these changes, that doesn't mean they the changes are not present. In retrospect, we can perhaps examine them. But in each moment of the present, one simply can not know all there is to know, except in maybe, a dramatically generalized sense, and a very specific and precise sense, the observation of reality sans cognitive translation - whatever that means :).

The issue is, when everything becomes too predictable - this is another variant of insanity. Everyone sharing the same identical mind, there has to be some room for creativity, some room for the individual to be able to say "I exist independently". Consistency is blind to this, rigorous systems where everything behaves perfectly in accordance to some set of rules...

"Ordnung muss sein, sagte Hans, da brachten sie ihn in das Spinnhaus"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnung_muss_sein

HN seems to like disruptive things, and I've had that phrase hanging around in my mind for the past few days. Where did it come from, and why does the thought stick around? Are there new thoughts, new observations, that cause me to let go of the thought, to move onto another?