Simplifying things is definitely under-rated if you ask me. And energy-saving too: Global Warming, climate change, and all that stuff in general suffer from the complexity bug and end up being totally confusing for all but the geniuses. Which is a good thing in some ways; for example, the more complex something is, the more bad stuff we don’t have to know about. But is that really the attitude we should be taking to these horrendous problems? Imagine if nobody had said “Those shell suits don’t really look good, do they? In fact the whole shell-suit craze has gone a bit too far. Let’s just stop it, right here, right now”. A truly terrifying thought. Shell-suits might have taken over the world. Chances are you’d be sitting in one now, and for every day for the rest of your life–

Enigin aren’t simpletons, as far as I know, but they are wholly devoted to the ‘let’s make life easy because what’s the point in making life difficult?’ thing. You can see how much they love it at the following link:

But don’t get me wrong: simplicity isn’t everything. Some things can’t be simplified, and Enigin know that to. But they are picky about the words they choose, and the approach they take to letting you know stuff in general. Which I am thankful for–seeing as complicated scientific terms tends to switch my brain immediately off. Unless they come with pictures, of course, in which case it’s going to be a very good day.