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Paths to Chaos or Paths to Glory

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Paths to Chaos or Paths to Glory?

What is the natural trajectory of development in unrestrained Reality? Once there exists some natural process of Change underway, will it inevitably wind-down, like an unattended clock, to inaction, then rust, and finally disperse into oblivion? Or will the opposite be the case: will it just as inevitably perpetually generate ever new forms, and go on to fill all the interstices of possibilities to the utmost?

All man-made devices certainly take the former course, but they all have a very unnatural character and nature, and require constant maintenance. Man is not a cosmic gardener of Reality-as-is, but an engineer of found and contained relations...