Ben, This is an EXCELLENT post! We are writing and responding to questions like this every day, and I appreciate your astute observations and recommendations, as always!
Phil, there's such wisdom in your comment! Thank you for clarifying that complexity unto itself is not the problem. This is an important clarification and one I'll use moving forward.
Ben, This is an EXCELLENT post! We are writing and responding to questions like this every day, and I appreciate your astute observations and recommendations, as always!
Ben, I really loved your post today—such a clear and vital message.
Your title sparked three reflections I’d love to share:
1. Complexity is the natural state of life—human and ecological—and it’s our greatest gift.
2. So complexity isn’t the problem. When we embrace it, we begin to see the whole and respond with wisdom.
3. But there’s natural complexity, which sustains life—and artificial complexity, imposed by mechanistic systems that obscure it.
I believe it's by embracing our natural complexity that we unlock the imagination and insight we need to truly care for each other—and ourselves.
Keep them comin’!
Phil, there's such wisdom in your comment! Thank you for clarifying that complexity unto itself is not the problem. This is an important clarification and one I'll use moving forward.
Constantin Brancusi said it best, "Simplicity is complexity resolved"