I hate simplistic thinking. And I have identified a hatred to this "simplicity" with Voltaire's "Candide". I have valid reasons for such hatred and I think I am justified in such hatred.
I hate simplistic thinking because leaders who make policy must think through their goals and think about how best to implement them. Simplistic thinking in leadership does not take into account the vast complexity of such goals, if these goals are set in complex networks and situations. The world itself is such a context. Those that follow such leaders are prone to pay the costs of such "simplicity".
I hate simplistic thinking because it leads others to follow uncritically. These people are bound to "pay the costs" without realizing it. But, they are pawns to the deceptive manipulation or lack of forethought of their leaders. Such people are simplistic themselves and are uncritical to life, the world, and its politics.
I hate simplistic thinking because it isn't based upon real problems in the real world, but pacifies these problems with platitudes of "answers" that fall short of coherency. "God" is used in such a way.
I hate simplistic thinking because I and those I love have paid a price for such thinking. This is how I have learned to not think simplistically. Simplicity is navete'.
Simplicity is the way children think, but this way of thinking must be outgrown, if we are to be good for the real world.
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2 comments:
We all want a simple understanding of reality but reality is complex. Barth said the way to simplicity is through the complexity. It's like Life, the way to it is through Death and not around it somehow...
You are using myth to give meaning to life, which is appropriate personally, but who can define what "meaning may mean" to another? Haven't you been in a move or read a book and when you shared your perspective, you were astounded at what other got from the "myth"?
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