A lot of your points here really resonate with me. On the one hand, I'm a silly absurdist, but on the other, I ruthlessly apply The Razor to data inputs (before I turn them into a joke, for no reason).
The inundation of info is astounding, really.
I love having access to info because I love learning, and even Knowledge for knowledge's sake.
But, it's a Pandora Box. A box on a pedestal in the middle of a sea of BS.
The box is now open, but the sea surrounding it still stinks.
True enough. I like to say that there's nothing more complex than simplicity.
What I only partly understand, if I understand it at all, is why people love complication (think soap operas or useless, but interesting contraptions), but are unable to deal with complexity.
I ponder that often too, Lee. Using Occam’s Razor, I would conclude that it is brain chemistry that is produced from being stuck in the middle of Maslow’s Hierarchy. People in true survival/minimalist mode don’t do this, nor do the self actualized.
I am reluctant to accept any but the most unconscious of human behaviors as innate or due to physiology (brain chemistty). But the difference between what's cultural and what's innate is fuzzy. And being stuck in the middle is consistent with what I seem to see. People who are materially secure, but lost just the same.
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A lot of your points here really resonate with me. On the one hand, I'm a silly absurdist, but on the other, I ruthlessly apply The Razor to data inputs (before I turn them into a joke, for no reason).
The inundation of info is astounding, really.
I love having access to info because I love learning, and even Knowledge for knowledge's sake.
But, it's a Pandora Box. A box on a pedestal in the middle of a sea of BS.
The box is now open, but the sea surrounding it still stinks.
True enough. I like to say that there's nothing more complex than simplicity.
What I only partly understand, if I understand it at all, is why people love complication (think soap operas or useless, but interesting contraptions), but are unable to deal with complexity.
I ponder that often too, Lee. Using Occam’s Razor, I would conclude that it is brain chemistry that is produced from being stuck in the middle of Maslow’s Hierarchy. People in true survival/minimalist mode don’t do this, nor do the self actualized.
I am reluctant to accept any but the most unconscious of human behaviors as innate or due to physiology (brain chemistty). But the difference between what's cultural and what's innate is fuzzy. And being stuck in the middle is consistent with what I seem to see. People who are materially secure, but lost just the same.