Is everything happening in the world just a bunch of random events or is it all planned?  Are the oak trees in my area producing a lot of acorns this year because they got a lot or rain in the spring, in preparation for a harsh winter, or for no reason at all?  Was the end of the USSR and the Berlin wall part of a growing movement toward a spiritual and peaceful world or just coincidence?  
    Personally, I thing the answer to these  questions is "both".  Most major events that happen in the world are part of a plan and the result of forces and cycles that most of us are blissfully unaware of while minor events such as which pair of socks I were tomorrow are mostly random.  
    Even when events are somewhat random thought, I don't think anything is ever totally random.  What socks I choose to wear today are determined by what socks I own (I can't decide to wear purple socks if I don't own any), what I'm planning to do today and my personal choices regarding style and color.
    In the field of Quantum Mechanics, some have theorized that events are completely random and cause and effect doesn't exist.  That, since time is illusion, you don't need to break eggs to make an omelet.  Of course, none of these scientists have ever actually made an omelet without breaking eggs, wore a green shirt without first buying or borrowing one, or sent a rocket to the moon without first building a rocket and I have yet to find myself getting dressed in the morning, then getting out of bed.  It may be true that if we could see all time at once, we would see the effect happening when the cause is happening, but the cause does happen (the rocket is built) or the effect (rocket goes to the moon) doesn't.  
    It may be true that if we didn't view time linearly, it would be hard to recognize the cause of various events, but that doesn't mean there isn't one.  Events do have causes and major events are almost always part of a plan, even if we don't know what the plan is.