The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

First off, right from the fucking start, an increase in entropy doesn't mean a decrease in "order." Entropy has to do with possible configuration states, and "order" is a rather subjective concept. There are many systems where an increase in entropy creates order out of chaos.

Basically there are macroscopic "orders" (the dandelion bulb style configuration) that maximize the free movement / available configuration states of dangly bits to stretch and dangle by getting the pointy bits out of their way, making them all point towards the center.

Second, taking entropy as equivalent "dissipation" is also continental wankery. And like most poetry, it gets used to wildly misdirect through misassociation. If you really want to wrap human-centric concepts around entropy you might instead think of it as "knitting together."

(The folks going on about "dissipation" tend to irritatingly conflate heat death with the big rip, but if you want to grab recent physics you should go for entanglement entropy and the work suggesting entropy knits together spacetime itself.)

Note the difference in conceptual valences here: "dissolution" brings associations of death and decay, a perspective wedded to an isolated demarked subsystem, whereas "knitting together" involves a fuller, less arbitrary, more cosmopolitan perspective.

Reactionaries hate time, they hate progress, they want to *move the clock back.* This is because they are partisans of negative freedom instead of positive freedom, they want to return to isolation/tradition, an arbitrary fixed historical state, they hate increased possibility.