Is the world drifting into chaos?

Or is it becoming steadily more ordered, while things of chaotic nature are simply over advertised and broadcast? This is a question that always comes up as one thinks of the things that are happening today - for example recently we have a man who had claimed his son was in a balloon that could not physically carry that much weight 10,000 feet above sea level; we also have pirates going wild in Somalia and have in the past year witnessed the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.