The Progression of Regression

All has become far too complicated. Nothing in the recent months of my existence has transpired simply, or even reasonably straightforward. Things as simple as swinging by the store for a quick purchase, printing a document, or finding a date seem drastically over-complicated lately. The design firm I work for just adopted a new client correlation system speckled with superfluous buttons, boxes and procedures. You have to be a master of decryption to post a wretched comment to a blog anymore. Capital? Lower Case? I? L? J? sYn2XKgG . . . Close all the freeway off ramps to the same city at once?! Pin Numbers - Security Questions - 8 characters, at least one number and a capital, change it once a month - 55, 40, 65 within one mile - Credit Cards, Discount Cards, Membership Cards, Debit Cards - We live in an era of redundant wording, legal clauses and "more is better." It seems the more we advance the more complex it becomes. Can we not apply our intellectual and technological headway to create a world LESS perplexing than that of the present day? Surely a harmony between technology and simplicity is within reach! Why do we allow the lawyers, programmers and businessmen to shape the way we administer our activity? Let us synchronize the visions of the think tanks and mathematicians to those of the artists and simplicity pundits. Simplicity is the portal to the future. We'll never arrive otherwise. There'll be too many buttons to push.