October 4, 2004

  • “Simplify.”  (Who’s most famous for saying that?)


     


    I don’t think I agree.  You simplify life by eliminating options.  If you have no options, no choices, but simply one foreordained path, life is at its simplest and you either then quit life or proceed. 


     


    But having options can be good.  They fill the universe with Plan Bs.  What good are Plan Bs?  Hell, Ronald Reagan was, at best, a B-movie actor.  A lot of somebodys made the choice to watch his B-movies rather or in addition to others’ A-movies.  And that dubious foothold of cultural popularity propelled him along, eventually, to the Presidency. Bedtime with Bonzo: all about Bs.  Plan Bs and B-things are the real workhorses of the cosmos.  Truly excellent things are much too rare to carry us along day-to-day through the whole haul of a lifetime. 


     


    And the phrase “for simplicity’s sake”  proposed as the reason for doing something is even worse than the mandate to “simplify” all by itself.  In my mind it is clear-struck evil.  True, there are times when you may have to simplify your life somewhat if the number of options available to you is overly staggering and confronting their complexity becomes stagnating.  So if your wardrobe is so huge that you’re chronically late for important dates because you can’t decide what to where, either simplify your decision making (ie., flip a coin or use a magic eight ball) or simplify your wardrobe by donating a chunk to charity.  You simplify because the alternative is to become moribund. But to do something just for “simplicity’s sake”, while sounding quite innocent and almost idyllically noble, is the essence of the greatest evil worked in this world.


     


    What do I mean?  Read on…

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