a simple fear or humiliation, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 229

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The problem is not that we are simplistic creatures governed by too few mechanisms, but that the basis of the objections to our simplicity are too often proofs of the assertion and not refutations.  The objection always hinges on a simple fear or humiliation.  However, once we dismantle our insecurities and study the parts, learn how each works together into a whole, then the complete machine, with all of its hinges, wires and circuits, appears more than complex.  When it so much as walks, for example, it resembles more the flying god than that simple hinge which can only squeak when an insecurity is pulled.



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