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The Ethics Of Complexity
Why simplifying people can become a moral failure.
Ally DelshadMarch 8, 20267 min read
To simplify another person may feel efficient. It may even feel clarifying. But clarity can become violence when it removes the conditions that make a life intelligible.
Complexity is not confusion. It is the refusal to treat a human being as a slogan.
Staying with difficulty
The ethical task is not to admire complexity from a distance. It is to remain present when complexity interrupts the story we wanted to tell.
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Ally Delshad
Ally Delshad writes and hosts Wisdorise as a practice of slow attention across philosophy, literature, neuroscience, technology, and human experience.
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