our complexities, A Human Strategy by Matt Berry, aphorism 173

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The human creature is amazingly complex for having so few tools of influence.  And this flatters us: we would rather sift through our complexities than apply a single tool to ourselves.  We in fact experience “freedom” in proportion to our denial of the self-mechanics that would have added control.  Our denial of reality proceeds like that of a criminal’s defense, expanding in complexity as each revision is put in check.  Simplicity is what we fear most.  The crucial simplicity of our existence sends us whimpering to our knees begging for the illusion to take us back — something as simple as “I am a machine.”




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