RE: LeoThread 2025-08-14 22:48
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Not everyone can appreciate ideas in their full complexity. Clarification provides the context needed for understanding, while simplification means reducing complexities to make them understandable.
In a capitalist society, maximizing profit often leads to simplifying content for the masses. This drive towards simplicity is about appealing to more people, not necessarily enhancing the original content.
Simplifying for broader reach is often a dilution, not an improvement, and is different from making something accessible.
Simplicity as accessibility is about making something available in a simplified form. In contrast, simplicity as superiority is about executing with elegance, which doesn’t need further explanation.
Such simplicity is often misunderstood because it doesn’t explain itself.
While excessive complexity can be inefficient, the call for simplification is often about broadening appeal rather than correcting inefficiency. Distilling ideas for mass consumption can reduce their brilliance.
True influence doesn’t come from diluting ideas to appeal to others but rather from maintaining their integrity.
The notion that brilliance should be accessible to everyone is a misconception. Reducing the quality of an idea for broader participation is misguided. This isn't about gatekeeping but about respecting the value of complexity.
Believing "simpler is always better" can be misleading; true superior simplicity is mastery that’s elegant and self-explanatory, not "dumbing down."