Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.The obedient must be slaves.
~Henry David Thoreau~
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
~Voltaire~
Where "goverment" put "security",it's very clear that there's a rich district in Ark and security is it's police state.
I am absolutely floored that Thomas Hobbes has not been brought into this conversation yet. In the Leviathan he demonstrates (or attempts to) how any civil structure, be it cruel, benevolent, or other, is better than the state of nature (chaos), for when we are within the state of nature life is "cruel, nasty, brutish and short".
Hobbes was just a counter-point though. What I really wanted to say is that there is no such thing as a permanent stage of chaos or stability. To reference an earlier example, there is little chaos in the structure of a rock, yet there was certainly chaos at some point of that rocks life.
With that in mind, allow me to line up my game-winning philosopher, and his quote:
"The only thing constant is change"
~Heracletus~
From every way I think of it, this is the only statement that will always prove itself correct.