Simple-mindedness is not a virtue

I'm regularly reminded, again, of James Baldwin. There's a there's a speech that you can hear from him when he was at the press club in Washington DC, and he was talking about how, in America and in the West, he was talking specifically about America, but it sort of applies throughout the West, That you think simplicity, simple mindedness is a virtue, and you are distrustful of complexity. You're distrustful of nuance. You're distrustful of anything that is, hard to understand or that that can't be understood in five seconds. You know, you always want to get to the bottom line.

Never mind whether or not whatever is at the bottom line can only be understood when you read the whole page.