But that
simplism does not diminish the truth of the assertion.
Although both resource philosophies share the laudable goal of protecting the natural environment, each advances the
simplism that nature and culture are two distinct entities.
ADELEIDAE (web2), ATLANTAL, BIAJAIBA (pul), CATARACT, CIATICA, CYATYCA, DIAPSIDA, DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE (sted), DISCOIDS, DYSCOMFYDS, ENDEIGNED, ENSHRINES, FATHERCRAFT (web2), FIELD-WIFE, GAS-BAGS, GREEN-CHARGE, INCUDO-TYMPANIC, INSIGNIS, INTERKNIT, MASTOGRAMS (dor), MESEEMS, MISAIMS, MUSEUMS, NASORAEANS (cham), NATURANT, NIGGLING, NUSAUNS, PIEWIPE, PISTOL-WHIPS, PUSH-UPS, RAIYATWARI (cham), RESCUERS, RETROVERT, ROMANIFORM (web2), RUSH-HOURS, SETTEST,
SIMPLISM, SITARIST, STANITSA, TAENIATE, TIEMANNITE, TOSSPOTS, TRIMURTI, WOLF-GROWL
Behind this book extends a lifetime's loving attention to a favorite philosopher; within it lies a salutary essay on the
simplism that affects studies of akrasia that assume the agent's determining motives to be as transparent as his ostensible principles.
At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) "the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls", it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious
simplism. Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never-reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit -- a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust in the insight, imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of ordinary human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they do not and cannot possess.
But we reach this haven after long stretches of
simplism, snap judgements, and bald summary.
For all that the art of modernity is hostile to the
simplism of using would-be immobile categories in a fluid world, Gold perhaps too readily allows herself terminological blunt instruments like 'bourgeois liberalism in nineteenth-century Spain' (p.2).
Rabate seems to be on to something in discussing the Bush administration's embrace of an ideology of simplism. "In a sense," writes Rabate, "the lie is always more simple, and thus always more seductive.
And without depth, it's simplism of a different kind.
To go down this path (and some reviewers have) leaves us with little else to say about the book other than that it highlights in a readable, fast-paced way the centrally important issue of overconsumption, but is marked by bland derivativeness,
simplism and a cavalier approach to conventions of evidence.
The alternative to this
simplism, however, is expressly not to run back to a wishy-washy non-judgementalism in which we seek to understand every little subjective complexity and contextualised reason as to why we consume.
Naturally using this level of emotional manipulation in a film who's subject matter has great contemporary sensitivity invites charges of reductionism, political
simplism, and misrepresentation.
