Almost exactly a year ago I had a little splurge on simplicity: The KISS of Death.
At every level and on every scale we live in a world where the benefits comes from staggering levels of complexity, where understanding takes years and is then only approximate at best, where significant and thoroughgoing change is now inevitable as we confront the massive problems of Peak Oil, climate change and economic disconnection.
We live and will die in this world, yet our decision making systems revolve around whether or not the entire value of the discussion can be distilled into a 30 second statement because we don't actually want to pay the price of living in complex societies, we want our personal worlds to remain simple.
That, friends, is a vote for suicide.
But Bill Moyers does it so much better when dealing with the Obama/Wright trivia panic in the US.
Its interesting in its own right, but stick with it for the punchline.
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