You should expect to encounter high-entropy states. Because such states can be realized by a great many different arrangements of the constituent particles, they’re typical, pedestrian, easily configured, a dime a dozen. By contrast, if you encounter a low-entropy state it should command your attention. Low entropy means there are far fewer ways the given macrostate can be realized by its microscopic ingredients, and so such configurations are hard to come by, they’re unusual, they’re carefully arranged, they’re rare.

