Creating a Fiasco

Ira Glass on "This American Life" defined fiasco as: "the normal social structure breaks down." A fiasco can be negative, but also positive. Ira Glass also had this great insight about the useful purpose of a fiasco: "When social order breaks down, that could be a force not just for chaos and for entropy and for evil, but in fact, that could be a force for good." We'll explore the fiasco structure model in fiction and nonfiction through passages, and then try using a fiasco in some exercises.