I’ve spent about a decade writing here, across many subjects, and the clearest lesson is this: most people are not interested in complexity. They want simple stories, clean facts, and quick resolution. The problem is that the world is not simple, and our grasp of it is thin. If we were more willing to sit with complexity, we might stop making the same mistakes over and over.
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