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“What stops us from recognizing simplicity as the solution?”

There are so many answers to this question depending on your individual perspective.

For example, a stone cold sober materialist might say, it is the way we measure systems like the GDP, so a traffic accident adds perfect value to it while a mother raising her child does not count at all.

The Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet probably would say, it is the beauty of the Lorenz Waterwheel.

Well, and I'm not sure if it is exactly “fight fight fight”. But something along these lines. Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor doesn't seem to have the same view of things like 'Jesus':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqfwbf3X8SA

Btw: Did the “Happy” in the New Year become what it had been since Thomas Jefferson's time or has it finally morphed into something like Elon wearing a MAGA-cap?

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