The core point of “complexity” is pretty good. A parallel thing is expertise — like, man, I could barely build a good lean-to. Even the humblest of normal houses is an architectural marvel.
And the horrible thing is, Americans are famously more and more skeptical about experts! Colbert had it right when he labeled it “truthiness”, that gut feelings are a reliable way of knowing things, and intuition more dependable than experts– especially when on complex (ding!) matters like climate change, you can always hire some competing shill expert- and when sometimes official recommendations for health and eating vary a bit. “My ignorance is as good as your knowledge” and so we get shit like Trump grand-daddy “of trust me I’m rich don’t I know what I’m doing?” Or maybe less grand-daddy as “your elderly racist uncle”
McGST 
I used a similar technique for https://soyouregoingtodie.com/ — (and honestly my source material wasn’t much longer)
The core point of “complexity” is pretty good. A parallel thing is expertise — like, man, I could barely build a good lean-to. Even the humblest of normal houses is an architectural marvel.
Even a pencil is a kind of miracle – check out http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
And the horrible thing is, Americans are famously more and more skeptical about experts! Colbert had it right when he labeled it “truthiness”, that gut feelings are a reliable way of knowing things, and intuition more dependable than experts– especially when on complex (ding!) matters like climate change, you can always hire some competing shill expert- and when sometimes official recommendations for health and eating vary a bit. “My ignorance is as good as your knowledge” and so we get shit like Trump grand-daddy “of trust me I’m rich don’t I know what I’m doing?” Or maybe less grand-daddy as “your elderly racist uncle”
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