simplification

there are words that should be used carefully. because words are powerful, i already came out with this issue a while ago.
turns out that we have a new government in italy. don't really want to comment about it. but one thing that made me wonder is, there is a new ministry: the ministry of simplification.
s i m p l i f i c a t i o n. whatever it might mean, i don't really care. it's just the choice of the word that i find extremely disturbing. reminds me of some sort of 1984 propaganda atmosphere.
because, in spite of what the word itself may suggest, to simplify is the most difficult task ever. there is a threshold beyond which things cannot be made simpler. some wise scientist of the past might have said something similar once. things are complicated, and you can surely make them simpler, but not simpler than that.
lightness, that's another story. you can deal with complicated things and still leave them light. i believe there is always a way to make things lighter, but not simpler. complexity exists. period.