Occam's Razor

All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best. This maxim is commonly known as Occam's razor. It seems incredibly optimistic and unheard of in our society nowadays that we would go for the simplest solution possible. Lately, people have been positing and pundits pontificating about how one person or another group of people are going to bail this country out of its economic debt. About how we are going to end our reliance on foreign oil. On how we are going to create more jobs inside this country. And who can get us out of this whole mess.

But, is there any way either of our cunning candidates or their surrogates could come up with a simple solution? There has to be an easy way of getting us out of this mess. I believe if we start simple, we can get complex later. If we can put a guided faith in accomplishing something for the common good in one person, a simple solution, then the more complex acts must soon follow.

It is simple to do what is good. It is complex to do what is evil; at least, that's the way it should be. Lately we have had a proclivity as a society to act more evilly than good, and we need to change that pattern. A minor change in how we act could create a sensation akin to a "pay it forward" movement, and in that case, we'd be moving and progressing forward, rather than behind.