The Tao of Thoth (Free Ebook through 4/18)

    Complex principles and practices are as difficult to stand on as clouds and tend to result in clouded situations instead of clarity. Simple principles and practices provide a great base to develop on, near endlessly. Complexity is often pursued because in the design of the status quo, complex practices and principles offer a quick means to ends, a way to win money.

    The results of complex pursuits are complex problems. Simple pursuits do not result in complex problems. Simplicity does not blossom from complexity, only more complexity. Simplicity blossoms from simplicity as does potential ability to solve complex problems.    

    The unsustainable status quo of humanity is illustrated in the allegory of the islander who leaves home. The proverbial ‘go-getter’ islander leaves home in pursuit of gaining enough money to obtain an island home, only when he finally returns the island has changed due to aggregate complexity. His island is no longer the same. Simplicity is remaining on the island or going to an island to find work and a home there.

    All too frequently simplicity is overlooked because the most profitable pursuits in an unsustainable world are complicated. Simplicity is not necessarily the most rewarding means to ends. Simplicity is often a quality, whereas complexity yields mostly quantities. This distinction makes complexity a preferable pursuit to win money sure, but also as a whole modality unto itself it is actually easier to keep busy with quantifying things rather than qualifying ourselves and surroundings, rather than performing inner work.

    Sometimes complexity is preferred because complexity profits, and sometimes complexity is preferred because it is a distraction, a way to keep our attention on obtaining stuff rather than paying attention to our own stuff, rather than performing the difficult duty of performing the great work; the inner work. And directly due to this lack of development, many sensible systems, ideas, truth and fairness, and even the ability to obtain clean water on whole continents, are all being left behind for complex profitable means with complex and dire results.

    Truth and fairness have been removed and shifted in order to uphold the profitability of various complexities globally. Sometimes we learn about these transgressions of truth and fairness, sometimes we can assume, we do not learn of their occurrence, even as we are living through their consequence. The energy oligarchies and related institutions are among the most obviously guilty of gross lying about destructive actions with endless complex consequences.

    Truth and fairness are generally overlooked in relation to gaining means towards ends. People will boldly exclaim that they are conducting their business for profit. Hardly any proclaim their pursuit of truth and fairness. We, collectively, presume most all other institutional functions are formed in order to profit, truth and fairness be damned. And it is apparent, clean water be damned. In fact, we have allowed some of the most preposterous greedy pursuits to infiltrate our institutions of humanity maintenance, healing, and social development worldwide.