On the complexity of simplicity
Michael Oppenheim reflects on the testimony to simplicity and motor cars
The Quaker testimony to simplicity urges us to live our lives simply. I enjoyed a certain smugness for many years, in the belief that I was practising simplicity because I was driving a Citroën 2CV motor car – the much-loved Freda. It was a very basic vehicle. I contemplated writing a letter enquiring how many members, similarly, drove 2CVs – thereby practising simplicity – but decided that I might embarrass those Quakers who choose to drive what I then considered to be ‘rather complex’ modern cars.
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