simplicity and complexity

In our image conscious world we like to make everything from animal behaviour to relationships look simple. With television, advertising, movies, and various cultural inputs everything looks well shaped and comlete in the settings they are given. Our culture which is technologically complex makes the things we have to use simple, such as phones, automobiles, radios. It is easy to become drivers, couch potatoes, internet gurus, etc. And it all looks so simple. Yet behind all this image and completeness there are complex sets of behaviours and relationships and yet these are the things that we don't take the time to deal with in our lives. Relationships with others are what last into eternity yet we put more time into our appetites for experience and accomplishment than we do into our relationships which have the most complexity.
A friend of mine was going to the store to buy listerine as i was thinking about simplicity and complexity. Listerine became the focus of my thinking as listerine was a symbol of this image of simplicity. We think listerine will help us become more acceptable, more likeable, with whiter teeth less cavities, better breath, and teeth which others would envy. Listerine would be the vehicle to change how others see us (and smell us) and make it easier for others to relate to us. Yet will it change our attitudes? Will it change how we see others? Will it change the inner self? How does the image we have of ourselves affect the image others have of us? How does small changes in our outside image affect our inner being in eternity? What is the difference from changing from the inside out or changing from the outside in? These questions give me the idea of some of the complexity to all this but at the same time we crave simplicity and postitive flowing relationships. What are the symbols and processes that affect how i think about others on my daily journey?