From Simplicity to Complexity, looking for Simplicity

Yes – that’s pretty much us humans! We were raw, simple and hairy when it all began. And then we drowned ourselves into the ‘race to it’. 

We invented the fire and started cooking food. Then we grew up foodstuffs and spices to make it delicious. We started adding up oils and butter to make it even better. And one fine day, we realize it’s not ‘good for us’. So we are cutting down on oils. The next day, they say spices are not good to your intestines – so we cut them too. One more day, and they say we cook our food and destroy the vital minerals and vitamins – here we are eating everything raw and fresh! It’s not sarcasm – all I wonder is how things which go around come around.

We had kings who had palaces of stone and furniture of wood. We felt it’s not right – so we spent decades perfecting stainless steel, glass, marble and plastics. And now, we are bored – so we go back to ‘oh-so-mahvellous’ wooden wardrobes and coffee tables. 

First it was bicycles and people were all healthy. Then came the steam engines, and then gasoline (petrol) and then – gasoline with additives. And now we go forward to compressed natural gas and the way things are now – pretty soon, we will ‘reinvent’ bicycles. Need of time or of brains – what went around, came around.

Why else would cotton come back in the show after being wrapped by for decades by leather, rexine and nylon? 

The sole recognition of humanity itself lies in refluxing oneself back to his past, periodically, to prepare for the future.