Monday, 8 December 2008

The Complexities of Simplicity

Ah yes so this would be bureaucracy, so good they put the French word for "desk" in it...
I have a feeling that if the end of the world did occur, we probably wouldn't hear about it until a few months later, due to errors in the lines of communication. Or someone forgot to click on "OK."
"Doing" it seems, is out of fashion. So much simpler to think, process and evaluate than "do." An idea? There ought to be a committee to discuss its feasibility.
How many more times (answers on a e-postcard - if it's delivered and not filtered out as spam) will we have to hear that the latest very good idea/technological advance/life-saving drug is ready and waiting to improve the lot of the planet's inhabitants, only we can't use it because it's too expensive to pop out the foil tablet holders?
The decision of monetary value, about how many numbers to put after the pound or dollar sign in your local chemist is determined by - what? who?
Nothing tangible, as the processes that create are given a value by the raw material's/time's value which is determined by, yep, the same process, so...
...is it all a big circle of "i dunno, what do you think?"
If one stockbroker's anxiety can be fed off by the hordes around the world who enter numbers into the computer system that they designed, and add value to that anxiety as a tangible number that then influences everything from health to wealth, then how is this sustainable?
Eventually, there will be a point where nothing can truly be made out of nothing, and value will implode into itself, hopefully forcing a re-think.

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