War Of Position

I was reading about Gramsci and came across this : 

“It is safe to argue that the evolution of the working class out of the simple economic struggle for corporate goals and into the field of complex political struggle proceeds further into the decisive ’war of position’ waged mainly at the cultural front as an ideological struggle.”

Of course, it may be safe to argue that but I feel it may be dangerous on the ears and could cause a headache.

Everything Will Not Be Better Tomorrow

Simplexity

How come, with everything now making our lives simpler, everything now seems more complex?
I call it simplexity: a complex simplicity. (I know, but ‘complicity’ already exists…)
Everything obviously does not make our lives simpler if it makes it more complex. This is because simpler does not equal less complex. In fact, simpler now usually equals more complex. It may be simpler for me but the mechanics will be more complex. I press a button and the car window goes down. I press a button and I call a friend in a China. So it is simpler for me to do more things but I have less understanding of how the things are done. And when the things break down then I have no clue how to fix them.
So everything is not making our life simpler, we are simply introducing more things -complex things- into it allowing us to do ever more things.
God, I miss the good old days when things were simple and we missed the previous good old days when things were even simpler...