Quarantine

 

Taishō period (1912–1926) / Unichi Hiratsuka/ Landscape

Who Knows, Who Cares.  Maybe that should be my mantra.

Harder than it seems though.  I think that growing up in America during the past fifty years or so have seen a remarkable upsurge in the idea that an individual has the ability, no, the right, to have an opinion on every subject.

Hypothesis Non Fingo

Especially when one is speaking gravely of what is called “world events”.  Simply put, we are fascinated by ideas that are propagated by folks who don’t know the whole data set or are pushing for an outcome that will benefit them somehow.  

The idea that one should be “informed” has become endemic.  Yet the access to unbiased data has become so compromised that one is drawn into half-truths and opinions rather than facts.  Some of these are pleasing to the mind and sooth the soul, but they are still half-truths and as such are half “not-true”.  Now it doesn’t mean that they are false, it just means they aren’t true.

So maybe the real quarantine is what the world is doing around us.  The worlds complexity and myriad streams of reality have made the romance that we can know more than what is presented to us in our direct line of vision.

And that just doesn’t seem to be the case.  Welcome to the Firesign Theatre.

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