Essentialized

MODERN LIFE IS COMPLEX. WHY? IT'S... COMPLICATED.Over-the-top book analyzing the complexity that caused the Meaning Crisis. It also explores how people focus their attention in a world overwhelmed by superficial meaning and complexity. Fittingly, the book is made of scattershot essays.First, the book explains how the world became more complex.Second, it explains how we simplify things to deal with that complexity.Third, it showcases how those simplifications end up making the world more complex and making it harder to assign responsibility. In short, interpolation inhibits investigation. By the time you figure out what someone meant, they are no longer in the room. That makes dialectic solutions quite difficult if we can t agree on rough definitions and basic facts.The book also introduces a new psychological framework for satisfaction called The Fulfillment Games, based on a see-saw dynamic between control & release. Eclectically inspired by a wide variety of books:Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil PostmanThe Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph TainterThe Shallows What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas CarrTravels in Hyperreality by Umberto EcoThe Seamless Web by Stanley BurnshawSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Crisis of the Lonely Atoms by Alex HagenMeaningness + In the cells of the eggplant blog by David ChapmanUltra-Processed People by Chris van TullekenIncerto book series by Nassim Sir Flneur TalebSurrogation blog series by Suspended ReasonA world of symbols blog series by Patrick D. FarleyDriven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes by Jurgen SchmidhuberMeaning in Life and Why It Mattersby Susan WolfUnflattening by Nick SousanisData and Reality by William KentThe Beginning of Infinity by David DeutschThe Divine Within by Aldous HuxleyRethinking Pluralism Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity by Adam B. Seligman & Robert P. Weller