on complexity - by Kai McKinney - moving balance
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and how to deal with it
yankee stadium on film, from last year I’ve been writing a lot and publishing very little. Part of the reason why is that I haven’t been able to wrap my head around the two topics at the center of my offline-hours focus: complexity and religion. With both, I’m trying to understand the malaise that seems to have taken root within our discourse, our society, and ourselves, and how we might resolve it. It’s something like this: the world is complex, and we don’t have a very good way of dealing with it. We usually end up encoding this complexity into a narrative, but that can be risky. The…
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