complexity

Life is more simple when you have fewer choices. That is not to say that it is easier. It may be that you have fewer choices because someone else is making choices for you. In our rush to be free to make our own choices--and to make sure no one is making our choices for us--we have landed ourselves into a world of paralyzing complexity. I wonder if most people have the capacity to deal with the complexity of life in our culture. Maybe we will acclimate ourselves to the pace of modern life. Maybe we will burn ourselves out from an inability to keep up with massive change and complexity. It would be quite ironic for people who so long to be free to choose to become incapacitated by the complexity their so-called 'freedom' brings.