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Who ever coined the term “less is more” obviously never took Organic chemistry. Because in O.Chem applying that philosophy would in essense equate to saying, “A grade of ‘F’ is a grade of ‘A’.” And none of us have to be experts in the field to know how that reaction works…

So what is the deal with less is more? I mean, does less money mean more money? Try telling that to the debt collectors. What about size? Is less weight really more weight? And if not (obviously it’s not), then what exactly is there more of? Room in your clothes? Maybe.

I suppose if you think in terms of your environmental spacial relations and assuming that parallels with your spacial thoughts…then maybe less (stuff) is more (room to think). By this I consider all the tangible “things” we collect and how they indirectly take up more than their actual space, they also figuratively take up space in our thougts.

Think of a flatscreen t.v. to prove my point. Now you’re probably thinking, “hey, it’s a flatscreen…don’t tell me it takes up space; it’s hanging on a wall that was bare and that’s a heck of a lot better than the huge clunker we used to have in the living room.” I understand your rationale in terms of physical space, but you still haven’t solved the space they occupy in our minds. You see, watching t.v. is something that takes up more than the actual 2 hours we may watch it a day (and I know that is a conservative number of hours for most people, but we’ll just go with it.) T.V. has the ability to influence our thinking and even when we’re not watching it, we’re probably googling information about the actors who are on it, or are on the website of the show we watch reading “extras” and whatnot. Or we may be scheduling our live (with actual people) around when a particular show comes on. See? I would even dare say that “upgrading” from a bulky t.v. to a flatscreen may even prove to be more detrimental in terms of pensive space because now you want to watch t.v. more because it looks cooler (aka “the quality” is better – yeah right…like it really makes that much of a difference and even if you happen to notice the difference – come on! There are more important things you should be paying attention to – like who is the Secretary of State? Or who’s announced they are running for President in 2008? Or something else that affects more than just your Primetime social hour.)

Now don’t get me wrong. I am not saying don’t have a t.v.; I am simply using this example as an illustration. And, as it turns out, it makes a pretty good one for my argument.

So maybe less isn’t really more. And I know more definitely isn’t less. So unless I am willing to compare all opposites in this manner (i.e. black is white, or up is down, or pretty is ugly) then I think I do well to say, “less is less. end of subject.”