If only we applied Khaby Lame’s rule: simplify according to truth

The tiktoke has found the Holy Grail at the age of twenty, that is, it has discovered the fundamental law that regulates the functioning of our civilization in an alarmingly increasing number of areas: trivializing complex things and complicating simple ones

I confess, for months I have watched and rewatched the silent videos of the tiktoker Khaby Lame as one witnesses an Eleusinian pantomime, or as Parsifal when the silent procession of valets and damsels parades in front of him displaying enigmatic symbols, and he is mystically baffled. In short, I sensed that there was a lesson to be understood, an oracle of some kind to decipher, but I had no idea what it was. Khaby Lame, as anyone who lives on planet Earth knows, in the videos that made him famous he always follows a classic and elegant structure in three acts: watch a tutorial in which very cumbersome instructions are given to perform a trivial operation – peel a banana , putting on your shoes, opening a can, pouring a drink – then he performs the same operation in the most obvious and direct way, finally with a perplexed look and an illustrative gesture of the palms of his open hands he underlines the emptiness of the unnecessary complication. End.