Simplified English

I wanted to write another post for long. I had collected many topics for the task. 

These topics included bad examples of advertising. 

Today I read an article. It was on Wikipedia. It was on 'Boredom'. And it was in Simple English.

This was the first time I had noticed that Wikipedia had simple English articles. At first they felt choppy. They also felt over simple.

Then I went to the list of the very good articles. I read about Jessica Alba. She is a pretty woman who acts in English films. Sadly, these films are not in simple English. They are in American English. Many British people think American English is not English at all. 

Jessica Alba had taken someone called Playboy to court because he printed her naked pictures without asking her first. 

And that is where my ideas about simplicity come in.

Weirdly, there was nothing wrong with what the article was saying. But, take my advice, go to simple.wikipedia.org, and read any of the leading articles. You will see that this childish, and often hilarious flavour of the language makes the actions of a supposed adult, seem juvenile. 

What I read there drove a mighty point home, one that I have always supported. When you peel away the layers thrust upon us by education and civil behaviour, you will find that people seldom diverge from basic rules of human conduct: maximising benefits, ensuring reproduction and confrontation.

Socialists, Fascists, Neo Liberalists, Consevatives and Tobacconists would have you believe that it isn't so. But the more I think about it, the more I see the point in not thinking too much.

And the more I see the point in straightforward, simple thinking and action. If you need to step out from a warm bed onto a cold floor, you would do better to block all though and just do it, rather than think and make it tougher.

If you do, and trust me, it works, write down all thats troubling you on a paper in simple, straight terms, you will be surprised at how wonderfully you can solve the situation; just because it was put there as it is, no adjectives, excalamations or added sugar.

It is not sad, but funny how anyone who makes a return to plain vanilla, staright line, push button simplicity is hailed as a  genius. 

In another world, they will be mere agents of change; which is probably what most genius is about.