In many cases that we speak of complexity, we are speaking of a certain array of affairs within our locus of control, or at least our field of perception.
Simplification in this case would have to do with ceding control or attention to external entities, so that they may govern themselves, or at least carry on without you paying conscious attention.
Something becomes more complex when you no longer trust it to function in your favor when your attention drifts from it. And it becomes overly complex when you lack the faculties and energy to attend to all of the points of control or attention.
But when you stop caring about something and trust it to simply nurture you, or not pose a threat, it drifts out of the attention, where it is governed by the realm of reflex. You stop thinking about it. It becomes automatic. It becomes easy. This is all very possible locally, and a wonderful thing.
But this auto-reinforcing volatility that characterizes global capital is by its nature untrustworthy.
Like one watches a calving glacier, one can't look away. It is a spectacular event.
And when you're sitting at the base of the calving glacier, you're compelled to pay attention, to map its every contour, and trace out its path of destruction. Because you're in its path.
