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It's Complicated, Stupid

10/13/2020

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Present most people with the forthright observation that the global elite pulled off a devastatingly swift and successful totalitarian coup under the pretext of the birdemic and the observation would be peremptorily rejected as too simplistic to be true.

In fact, most people would regard such an observation as the hallmark of a stupid and unenergetic mind, one too lazy to appreciate let alone figure out the complicated world we inhabit. The totalitarian coup observation would be labeled "a simple answer" concocted by an unsophisticated mode of thinking undeserving of serious attention. 

Granted, a great many lazy minds have generated a great deal of simple answers that have indeed done very little justice to the complexity of some issues. And yes, some simple answers have frequently led to simple "solutions" that often had nothing at all to do with the problems they had been created to solve. In this sense, a simple answer truly can be indicative of a stupid and lazy mind. 

At the same time, those who regard the complexity of a complicated world as the only proof needed to defy the possibility of simple answers are utterly blind to the outright stupidity and laziness of their own apparently sophisticated mode of thinking. While simultaneously scoffing at the laughable notion of a simple answer capable of explaining everything (or at least explaining that which is most essential), this refined and worldly mode of thinking does little more than construct complicated answers that are incapable of explaining anything.

To regard everything as too complex and complicated for simple answers is to regard everything as a foggy labyrinth with no assured exit. Entering the labyrinth is easy enough, but finding a way out is another matter entirely. Wandering through complexity quickly degenerates into a Herculean labor. The sophisticated mode of thinking learns to avoid this laboring altogether. It is far more efficient and practical to merely declare everything to be an intricate labyrinth and leave it at that. 

Hence, the totalitarian takeover cannot have really happened, and even if it did, it is definitely not as straightforward and comprehensible as it appears to be. It's more complicated than that, stupid. Too complicated to think about. Best to just acknowledge the complexity of it all and wade no further. To do otherwise would be to seek the unsophisticated sanctuary of the "simple answer". 
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bruce charlton
10/14/2020 14:13:05

As a scientist I was always keen on simple 'models' - i.e. simple answers - because then it was clear when they were wrong. A simple model can be understood, and its predictions are exact.

You could then use them as long as they were helpful, but discard them when they failed.

When people suggest complicated, multifactorial explanations; then these can explain (or explain-away) anything that might conceivably happen in the future - and thus their (inevitable) errors are concealed.

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Francis Berger
10/14/2020 17:05:53

@ Bruce - That's a good connection. Thanks!

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Magnus Stout
10/14/2020 17:00:08

Great post bringing to mind Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science": even simple rules can create complex systems. Or, take secularist Chomsky, who could model "manufacturing consent" by the media-industrial-complex through a few simple rules (rather than as a grand conspiracy). Even if helpful, none of these secularists can fully comprehend a world ultimately grounded in a spiritual reality.

Certainly, a System which rewards Luciferian morality should eventually evolve into a Cult of Lying Evil (Dr. Charlton's phrase). Perhaps facile, but I imagine our System like an operating system which is infected by a virus (Evil) because our society has turned off the Antivirus program (primacy of the Creator--Programmer--and the nature of Good and Evil). This process has taken centuries through mostly little steps (time + iterations). The current climate is such that it either denies the Virus exists, or that we should accept the Virus as part of our Operating System and work with it and through it.

As the simple virus goes unchecked, it corrupts the more complex host because it overrides the requirements set by the Programmer (God) with those of itself. The virus leads to collapse just as Evil leads to death. The inevitable crash of the System leads to a massive loss of data (people).

Some at the very top must be aware (a conspiracy, perhaps literally making the Faustian choice), but the largest amount of people simply shift programming (allegiance and beliefs) to continue to run within the larger System--even though it is headed to a collapse. The "coming to a point" bit seems to be piercing of the delusion that "There Is No Virus In the System." Now, one is faced with either working with the Virus, or refusing to (& paying a cost). The coming Mark (the legal foundation now created by the Birdemic lockdowns) will be the Apex of the Virus seemingly replacing the Host and the Programmer's directives.

Of course, we know that the Programmer will return to reset the System and erase the Virus completely. It just going to be a difficult time to remain loyal to our programming during this corruption. And, perhaps the lesson is to use this mortal time (however challenging) to grow our spiritual life.

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Francis Berger
10/14/2020 20:22:00

@ Magnus - Good comment.

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Sean fowler link
10/14/2020 18:14:02

I think the truth is always simple. Often masked in great complexity, but simple when it comes down to it. Can’t come up with a single complex truth. Perhaps I’m being naive. Have absolutely no objection to being proved wrong.

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Ferenc Berger
10/14/2020 20:30:21

@ Sean - I agree, especially when it comes to spiritual truths. All I could add at this point is to suggest that simple is not always synonymous with easy. Thus, a spiritual truth may be easy to grasp, but difficult to pursue. Nevertheless, this is still preferable to complex untruths that are always difficult to grasp yet somehow easy and expedient to pursue.

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Sean fowler link
10/15/2020 05:50:56

Oh yes. Always a thousand times more difficult to to what we should than to do what we shouldn’t. Very challenging.
Am also of the opinion that the truth is one and that falsehoods are infinite. It’s a wonderful thing. Perhaps that’s the beauty of it and what makes it worth pursuing. Finding that one spot on the target that is just right among an endless supply of wrongs. A very beautiful thing.
More often than not when people lie, they begin their sentences with, “ its more complicated than that”.


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