If you really wanted to capture everything, without caveats or leaving anything important out, it would take an unlimited number of lines of text to account for the baffling complexity of the real world. The way our language and our reason work is that they take in information in a linear, line by line manner, and our understanding is limited to the capacity of memory, which is combined with heuristics and working conceptual thought and visualization to organize things. Computers can help augment these capabilities, but we still have to interface with the computers.
Therefore we simplify things with abstract general principles, archetypes, images, metaphors, and other symbols and symbolic structures to group nested complexities - of a fractal quality - into simpler, more general shapes which then can serve as building blocks to be manipulated to generate higher level complexities.
Much simplicity in our rational experience seems to be generated from collapsing complexities down into the general principles distilled from our experience of recurring patterns and structures. Sometimes these general principles and shapes can serve as constants, and last a very long time, and sometimes they are very volatile and are always changing as new data comes in. It depends on what you are studying and what you are trying to do.
With too much complexity comes blindness and confusion, and with too much simplicity comes false positives and false negatives. Of course simply experiencing cuts down on a lot of complexity, but then one is subjected to whatever happens in the world, as opposed to understanding it and anticipating it. Experience and rationality are worthwhile for different contexts at different times.
Navigating this world as a human being is a tricky thing.
