Logos: reason vs. chaos

Perhaps my professor was right. Logos does not have to mean reason in the form of order. The chaos Burroughs creates within the "logos group" is meant to give the reader a certain kind of comfort in reason. Not from the seemingly endless amounts of disturbing albeit creative sex, but from our harsh reaction to it. Rhetorically, logos is used along side pathos and ethos as styles and methods of writing. Each are used to captivate and persuade the reader.

Logos uses reasoning to persuade the reader. Burroughs presents the actions of the logos group to be quite reasonable. "Clearing" the mind and conscious of every human being, I have to admit, is an effective and reasonable way to harvest man kind and use it for whatever purpose you chose. With the clear slate, so to speak, one can really do anything with it.

So I find myself crediting the logos group for their reasoning and quite simple way of taking over the human race. However, I must give even more credit to Burroughs. By presenting the Logos group to be this reasonable and efficient group, Burroughs also uses logos himself in knowing that the readers reaction to the atrocity of the group will lead them away from such actions. It is in the the spirit of logos that Burroughs calmly presents this "logos group" and reasonably points out that the logos of this group cannot be the logos of the human being.