The Lie of Simplicity

We are a shallow people.
So often we claim to seek the Truth and celebrate looking into the depth of matters.
But in truth we seldom are able to look beyond appearances.
We settle for half-truths quickly, without patience to wait for more.
We allow that half-truth to take over us.


And so we live in learned ignorance.
A foolishness we are completely oblivious to.
And we are proud of it.
Yet all of that is manifested in the emptiness growing within ourselves.
An emptiness we cannot explain.


Is it society's relentless drive for quick results?
As long as one is able to cheat the system he is counted as a success?
Perhaps that has eroded our patience as well.
The big ideas no longer seem so attractive anymore.
They look more like lumbering giants, irrelevant and cumbersome.
Frozen beneath the thick ice of ignorance.
What matters now is how shiny its surface is.
Not how solid its interiors are.


Yet what is held dear by the masses does not automatically hold true.
The imbalance in a system corrects itself.
What is false will fail one day, along with the entire system.
Even then we would not say that it is false.
How could it be, it was said to be true by everyone.
By then we blame ourselves for being unworthy.
We say that God does not exist.


But what is true has not changed.
What makes a sound concept still stands tall and relevant.
It is simply abandoned by the masses because of its complexity.
So big that we give up to look at it at all.


We were all deceived by the lie of simplicity.
And all drunk with it.
All its promises for quick results.
We celebrate it as progress.
But in fact we are taking many steps back.
The shell becomes more and more hollow.
The emptiness grows.


We all fall for it.
It is too tempting and soothing to the ears.
Too easy to believe in.
All its promises so bright.
And above all, everyone else is doing it.


Success is measured by deceptive figures.
It encourages us to cheat the system in order to succeed.
But it is easy to get lost here.
Soon we are optimized for these indicators
And worse, we believed in them.


We succeed, yes.
Or put it in this way, we have become beautiful.
But what have we become?
Are we still recognizable anymore?
We are a mighty shell on the outside, decorated full of honours.
But within we live a pauper's life, empty and grimy.


There is no shortcut.
To understand we need to walk down the long, deep path.
A path we may become lost and even despised.
But what is true explains itself.
What is grounded in fact will still work, regardless of how the masses work against it.


At the end of it all, reality is like an acid,
Melting away the weak coatings covering the Truth.
It will stand the test of time, and it will explain all things.
It will triumph our current understanding of Logic and Reason.
They are limited in their functions, not because they are flawed,
But because they are incomplete.
They become flawed when we take the incomplete and treat it as complete.


If we look closely enough,
With a fair heart and mind.
Away with all the common prejudices and conceptions.
We will find what is true to be simple and pure as always.
Never has it changed, from the past till now.
Yes, the Truth is simple.
But the way to it is not.
Executing and following it is hard.