Even the youngest children are very good at picking out complicated patterns of statistics and data in the environment and complicated information about what people are trying to do and drawing accurate conclusions.
"Modern parenting is fraught and complicated – worrying about what sort of society we live in.
Part of the problem was that the message boards, with complicated information about what was operating and what was not, seemed to display contradictory information.
Other mothers, meanwhile, employed a language of colour and symbol to express their complicated feelings about what they were doing when they handed over their child.
Yet Díaz, who was born in Santo Domingo in 1968, and moved to the US aged six, evidently had more complicated feelings about what it might mean to be an American, writing as he did in the shadow of an old country that's part of the New World too.
When we ground ourselves in a position of holiness, we may have greater clarity and perhaps be better equipped to make complicated decisions about what it means to guard or protect the Earth beyond the token gestures of recycling and lightbulbs.
But "Pariah" is important, not simply as a promising directorial debut, but also as the most visible example of the mini-movement of young black filmmakers telling stories that complicate assumptions about what "black film" can be by embracing thorny issues of identity, alienation and sexuality.
See John Kinzie's trading outpost (without any complicating information about what a, shall we say, complex guy Kinzie was), or see pretty nifty renditions of the Chicago Fire and of horse racing in Washington Park.
What's more, when a celebrity comes out, it gives other people the courage to do the same and can help complicate ideas about what it means to be queer and what kind of people identify that way (hint: all kinds of people with all kinds of life experiences and all kinds of other intersectional identities do). .
