"Physician, heal thyself."
"The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps."- Proverbs 14:15
If you can't summarize a complex topic then you don't understand it. Sorry if the truth hurts but that's the reality. With greater understanding comes greater simplicity. That doesn't make it shallow, it just means greater mastery.
"The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding." - Proverbs 4:7
The idea that simplicity equals mastery is a fallacy. True mastery of a subject isn’t about reducing complexity to fit a comfort zone it pursues understanding the depth and nuance that simplicity cannot capture. The greatest thinkers didn’t simplify the world they explored it deeply and uncovered layers. To truly comprehend a subject is to accept its intricacies not squeeze what you can of them into a bottle of oversimplification.
This is the exact line of thinking that brought the US down in education compared to other countries. This is lowering the bar not raising it. The dumbing down of complex subjects into overly simplistic slogans has crippled western educational systems. It’s an unfortunate trend that seeks comfort and immediacy over challenge and rigor. Instead of fostering critical thinking and deep analysis they encourage students to memorize and regurgitate easy answers. Answers that are built on vestigial concepts and lies in many of the subjects. Just like unpacking history presents problems for all of these narratives, so too will be the removal of teeth in changing the education system away from the simpleton's grasp. If you promote this as mastery, look where that "mastery" has gotten everyone.
Children are especially severely handicapped in their growth by the dopamine-driven need for simplicity. This mindset driven by instant gratification has led to the destruction of countless lives through sin and bad habits. It parallels the seeking of simplicity in every aspect of life. For millennia not everyone became a philosopher or scholar nor did all in the Medieval period immerse themselves in the trivium and quadrivium. Forcing complexity on everyone is just as wrong as forcing simplicity. Some are made for one, others for the other. This is why societies had peasantries, nobility, and experts retained by monarchies. Growth thrived when discipline and complexity were respected, those who lacked the drive remained in duncedom, while those with the will to learn endured rigorous and complex training.
True in virtually every subject, for example take physics. General Relativity is simpler than Newtonian Mechanics which in turn is simpler than Aristotelian elements.
No, that’s far from accurate. What’s peddled in today’s academic indoctrination centers is nothing more than cookie-cutter affirmative-action physics designed for mass consumption rather than intellectual growth.
You’re mistaken on the simplicity scale. General Relativity is not simpler than Newtonian Mechanics it’s more complex because it describes gravitational forces in extreme conditions where Newton’s model fails, which is also why it is suspect from deeper analysis. Newtonian Mechanics remains a valid approximation for everyday situations but General Relativity is more comprehensive in explaining how space-time behaves under the influence of massive bodies (as an abstraction). Aristotelian Physics was replaced because it was considered inaccurate and unable to account for observable phenomena not because it was overly complex. Physicists rightly moved away from it in favor of models that were based on empirical evidence. So the scaling becomes more complex from antiquity to the present in that subject.
General Relativity is ultimately jewish dogma dressed in mathematical sophistication, heaped upon us by a vitriolic bolshevik pseudo-intellectual thieving fraudster and promoted by those who benefit from its convenience not its truth. A far more insightful view was offered by the greatest Serbian Orthodox Christian physicist:
"The Theory of Relativity is a beggar wrapped in purple whom ignorant people take for a king and a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the techniques of great men of science of the past and even to common sense. The theory wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. Its exponents are very brilliant men but they are metaphysicists, rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved." – Nikola Tesla, 1934.
Tesla understood that just because a theory is draped in elegant equations doesn’t mean it’s correct. Though General Relativity is considered revolutionary it remains unproven in many ways. It may have refined aspects of Newtonian mechanics but it has not replaced them especially in contexts where Newton's laws still hold strong.
A theory that cannot be universally reproduced or consistently validated by experiments is not a mark of mastery but a signal that more exploration is needed. Real mastery doesn’t lie in chasing mathematical beauty but in finding consistent verifiable truth.
You hide behind walls of text with a veneer of wisdom, you are literally the person the proverbs are describing. You completely fail to understand your own shortcomings.
"The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out." - Proverbs 18:15
I do not deny that I have shortcomings, but it is not in the pursuit of knowledge. I have made many mistakes in my life, who here has not? The simpleton seeks simplicity in all things, and when he does not find it, he reduces complexities to erroneous conclusions. There is always truth beneath the depths. I don't take you for a simpleton, and my responses should show you that I know you capable of reading much. In matters of communication between two people, simplicity has its uses, but in intellectual pursuits it does not.
I don't know what you think I'm hiding in my detailed responses either. If asked to explain myself I always do so. If you want summaries only, then that is going to be difficult depending on the subject matter. I will try to accommodate that, since you have highlighted its importance to you. I am considerate after all.
I'm sure you are well-versed on some significant subject matter, but your philosophical approach reveals your own methods are not steeped in learning for yourself what is, and what isn't, merely chasing a summarization even if the summarization isn't correct. Experts don't do this. You never give anyone a reason why you are an authority, you simply state "I know what is good." Then when pressed to explain yourself you repeat again on simple being superior when it is clearly not in most of the subjects discussed here. I never claim to be an authority, I am merely one voice and mind of many along the conduit of searching for truth among the lies.