But, oh, the yearning for simple-minded (so to speak) brain measures of disorder.

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Economics has been made out to be some secret, ultracomplicated formula that the average American is too simple-minded to understand.

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More ominous still, Buck insinuates himself into a children's theater, writes a simple-minded play that's seething with unresolved sexuality, then pays the theater's dimwitted manager, Beverly (Lupe Ontiveros), to produce it.

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This would be the simple-minded, dismissive explanation.

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The simple answer is that they are made up of like-minded individuals.

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