Far Too Complex: A Beginning

Today marks a new end to the beginning of the start that we finished completing when the enclosed circle waned.

Politics, economics, and science are sectors of the human experience that require a vast investment of time and energy to understand on any meaningful level. This is made exponentially more difficult by the intermixing of these in culture, something that people like to claim is recent, but was likely just as common when Socrates was executed or when Lee Sun Shin, the great Korean admiral was demoted to private for being disagreeable.

The life of a modern citizen in the industrialized world is made even more complex, though. We are told that we are expected to understand hundreds, if not thousands, of extremely complex issue ranging from climate change to energy independence to funding of government organizations and beyond. Then, as if just to rub it in our faces at how totally we fail at this, we are expected to cast a vote based on those issues.

To call this task impossible is an understatement of monumental idiocy.

How could you possibly find the time for that? You have a dozen other much more immediate things on your mind. Things like keeping your family fed, caring for loved ones, keeping yourself sane with a hobby, or not being a total shut-in.

The result of this unrealistic expectation seems to be that people oversimplify issues or react based on a belief. Why? Well because we are told we HAVE to react, but aren't given the real information with which to react. It's unfair and it creates unnecessary polarization.

The goal of this blog then will be to create a digest of these issue, one that I will honestly try to keep as up to date as possible. The Far Too Complex series will attempt to be:

1. As unbiased as possible, gathering information from any and all viewpoints

2. As brief as possible without leaving out critical information

3. Up to date when there are shifts in the major issues surrounding a policy

4. Informative but simple, scientific but not elitist

5. Respectful, because a lack of mutual respect prevents real learning

6. Funny...at least to me

7. Seriously...totally unbiased

#FTC