Profound
truths are often as simple as Einstein’s famous formula, E=mc2 or
Benjamin Disraeli’s aphorism, “Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age
regret.” Beneath the apparent simplicity lies immense profundity. That every
mass is a terrific bundle of energy is at once simple and profound. The growth
from youth’s blunders to the regrets of old age is also simple and profound.
Most people refuse to understand the
simplicity as well as profundity of truths that matter. They like to add
colours and flavours to truths in order to make them more bearable or more
attractive (apparently) or to wield them as weapons for self-aggrandisement.
Then we get all sorts of religions and creeds and isms. And the concomitant struggles
and strife.
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest
explanations of complex facts,” said Alfred North Whitehead. “We are apt to
fall into the error of thinking that facts are simple because simplicity is the
goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher
should be, ‘Seek simplicity and distrust it.’”
Unless we understand the profundity that
lies hidden beneath the apparent simplicity, we are likely to fall into many
traps like power games. Do people really want profundity? That’s an interesting
question. The answer is, more often than not, No. People want power or
something that makes them feel good about themselves. Consequently there is
neither simplicity nor profundity. Instead there are falsehoods masquerading as
truths.
We are part of a gargantuan procession of
masquerades. Anyone who refuses to play
along becomes a caricature labelled as antinational or something like that. It’s
a funny world. Who should I thank for all this fun?
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