Thursday 14 May 2020

Tesla, Rothko and the misinterpretation of "Less is More".


My experience has been that people tend to simplify things to a degree that they cannot be understood or solved any more. Contexts and history are left out because they are not visible to the bodily eye.
Especially in politics we see this happen but it happens in many fields.
Mechanisms of obtaining a real and definitive solution are replaced with one-liners and opinions not germane to the problem, without paying much attention to the particulars of the actual problem at hand.
You can make millions with it, even billions, or become president of the USA with it, but it won't solve anything and only complicates matters further because a false solution has been added to the problem which already was full of confusing elements.