A Philosophy for and of Our Time

 

                                                    A Philosophy for and of Our Time

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

H. L.  Mencken's famous one-liner has become a more important observation because society, as a huge and diverse group with a bell-curve of abilities, requires simplification when you communicate with it. The essence of advertising. "Mmm-mmm good!" "Built tough!" A single, pointed distillation. An essence.

Intellectuals, and eventually the only place they could find work, the university, have sought truth and explanation but only physicists have sought formulas. Now we all do. We all seek the one, single summation of the complexities of creation and, in the social world, that is Critical Theory.

What used to be the intellectual explaining the complex ingeniously simply has become simple men seeing the complex simply. 

This means we have gone from insightful to simplistic. The conspiracy theories of the Right and the Critical Theories of the Left have one common denominator: They are easy.