"Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult"
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It lands like a shrug aimed straight at our overcomplicated age: the world isn’t the problem, we are. Coming from Caprice Bourret - a model turned media personality and entrepreneur - the line reads less like a philosopher’s thesis and more like a survival tip from someone who’s watched “simple” get buried under public opinion, branding, and constant performance. The intent is blunt reassurance: step back, strip it down, stop dramatizing.
The subtext is where it bites. “Things are simple” is an aspirational claim, not a factual one; it’s the kind of sentence you say when you’ve had to manufacture clarity inside a system designed to monetize confusion. In celebrity culture, difficulty often isn’t the work itself, it’s the noise around it: scrutiny, gossip, image maintenance, the exhausting requirement to be legible to strangers. By shifting the blame to “us human beings,” Bourret makes the difficulty a choice - or at least a habit - rooted in ego, insecurity, and the urge to control outcomes.
The phrase also functions as a quiet rebuke to modern self-seriousness. It deflates the idea that complexity automatically equals depth, a seductive trap in wellness culture, hustle culture, even relationships. Its rhetorical strength is its plainness: no jargon, no grand theory, just a clean contrast between “things” and “us.” That simplicity is the point - it models the mindset it advocates, inviting the audience to feel how much relief can be created by editing the story we tell ourselves.
The subtext is where it bites. “Things are simple” is an aspirational claim, not a factual one; it’s the kind of sentence you say when you’ve had to manufacture clarity inside a system designed to monetize confusion. In celebrity culture, difficulty often isn’t the work itself, it’s the noise around it: scrutiny, gossip, image maintenance, the exhausting requirement to be legible to strangers. By shifting the blame to “us human beings,” Bourret makes the difficulty a choice - or at least a habit - rooted in ego, insecurity, and the urge to control outcomes.
The phrase also functions as a quiet rebuke to modern self-seriousness. It deflates the idea that complexity automatically equals depth, a seductive trap in wellness culture, hustle culture, even relationships. Its rhetorical strength is its plainness: no jargon, no grand theory, just a clean contrast between “things” and “us.” That simplicity is the point - it models the mindset it advocates, inviting the audience to feel how much relief can be created by editing the story we tell ourselves.
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