Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.
The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.
Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.
The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.