[kFoyauextlH]

What do these two terms mean to you? What is preferable and why? People often mix complexity with confusion and simplicity with ease.

Sometimes complexity is taken as a reference to or indication of sophistication and advanced intelligence, in other cases with madness.

As for simplicity, some conflate it with stupidity or naivety.

I don’t think a choice really has to be made regarding these terms or their uses, but there is a general idea of simplicity moving towards complexity, complexity refining back to simplicity.

Simplicity can also be associated with boredom, complexity with mental stimulation or simply more, more to do, more to think about, more to say.

Simplicity is often considered an Underlying element, where complexity tends to be considered a mask or topical agent that covers or is on top or in front of simplicity.

I am constantly working towards simplifying things in order to be able to remember them or have a system for acquiring the information again.

I even get annoyed when lists are too long. Its as if I am commenting items or toys and it just becomes overwhelming and I can’t seem to give a satisfying amount of attention to all, and so have to make choices and prefer and turn towards some of particular interest more than others.

The human tendency seems to fluctuate between a desire to create lists, and in the process of doing so, going too far, and then wanting to refine and limit or eliminate those lists.

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[warda]

once someone said to me that ‘their’ interest lies in elitist ways. this made me think about what elitist is. for me when i think about that word i connect that with politics, with people who think high of themselves, people who are in ahh with etiquette.

for me all these things stand for complexity, but when i look at the people who live that way i see the simple….

[atreestump]

Simplicity is best thought of in terms of the Quakers, simplify your life so you can focus on important things.

Complexity in my mind, brings forth images of termite mounds, emergence and ant colonies above 25 ants.

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