One Wave, Two Reeds . . . Last days of Summer in North America.

Maybe you’re like me and dread seeing the last days of
summer pass by all too quickly. How soon, too, we lose
our childlike sense of simplicity which seems to come so
easily with the warmer months.

Here’s a little meditation on the theme of simplicity and
its relationship to natural complexity—which I believe is
always good—as opposed to complicatedness, an
appropriately ugly term for that which is unnecessarily
difficult, which is always bad:

	Complication Cycle? Complicatedness—in contrast to the richness of natural complexity—is difficulty which serves no purpose and is therefore without reason or meaning. Complicatedness is essentially the result of a failure of perception, leading to convoluted and unnecessarily difficult systems of thought and design. These, if left unchecked, go on to further reinforce the original failed perception, which in turn, like a dog chasing its own tail, leads to still more difficult systems of thought and design. Remarkably, complicatedness, for the very simple reason that it wastes energy, is not a feature of natural structure or movement.

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