New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 29: Elegant Simplicity

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@therealitynetwork Feels like it's too #complicated or #techinical (Though it can make #sense and might work for a while.)

#Simplicity seems like what will hold #longterm. Your thoughts?

A quotation from Thomas More

They have very few laws, because, with their social system, very few laws are required. Indeed, one of their great complaints against other countries is that, although they’ve already got books and books of laws and interpretations of laws, they never seem to have enough. For, according to the Utopians, it’s quite unjust for anyone to be bound by a legal code which is too long for an ordinary person to read right through, or too difficult for him to understand.
 
[Leges habent perquam paucas. sufficiunt enim sic institutis paucissimae. Quin hoc in primis apud alios improbant populos, quod legum interpretumque uolumina, non infinita sufficiunt. Ipsi uero censent iniquissimum; ullos homines his obligari legibus; quae aut numerosiores sint, quam ut perlegi queant; aut obscuriores quam ut a quouis possint intelligi.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 2, ch. 7 “Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages” (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965 ed.)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/85391/

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A quotation from Propertius

Dear love, dear life, you do not need adorning —
   hair curled, silk rustling down your slender side.
Not by that heavy scent, those foreign bangles,
   is this your natural beauty magnified.
No. Let that beauty shine in its own brilliance,
   your charm, your grace, transcend what gold can buy.
Believe me, art is needless. You are lovely,
   and love goes naked nor would trick the eye.
   
[Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo
   et tenuis Coa veste movere sinus,
aut quid Orontea crines perfundere murra,
   teque peregrinis vendere muneribus,
naturaeque decus mercato perdere cultu,
   nec sinere in propriis membra nitere bonis?
Crede mihi, non ulla tuaest medicina figurae:
   nudus Amor formam non amat artificem.]

Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 1, Elegy 2, l. 1ff (1.2.1-8) [tr. Carrier (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/propertius/85262/

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Well into the mid 1990s, I walked about without pagers, mobiles, and other "smartleashes", with just a manual-wind, mechanical watch upon my wrist. I wish, at least, to revert back to the #distraction-free #simplicity of the mid 2000s, pre-smartphone era. I am not yet longing for a brick-like flip-phone with age-appropriate features, like humongous dial pad, massive font, loud ringer, included hearing aid, built-in fall detection, automated ambulance service, etc. That day will come, soon enough. But, in the meantime, it would be swell, if #mobile carriers offer a phone with these features:

• A rugged (at least IP67), wallet-sized phone with an #eink display just large enough to render text, short emails, and the dial pad
• Just text, email, calendar, and phone apps; no web browser, no ebook reader, no social media, no games, no side-loadable apps
• No camera, no video player, no headphone jack, no audio player
• Just cellular and WiFi; no Bluetooth, no NFC, no other connectivities
• Just magnetic charging; no charger port
• A battery that lasts forever and a day on one charge
• The phone is included with a mobile plan

If such a cheap, free phone is too much to ask of the carriers, I would gladly settle for a free, wallet-sized, dual-touchpad #Morse keyer with a built-in MEMS shaker, and the opportunity to sign up for an SMS-only mobile plan: connected, but barely, as it were. Besides, talking is taxing; texting is tranquil.

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Stan Stewart contemplates the complexity of human life. Like living, can anything about music-making be simple?
#complexity #simplicity

https://muz4now.com/2026/complexity-nothing-is-singular/