The photo atop this post is not offered as one of my Great Works of Art.
It’s just a moment that struck me while Ann and I were wandering around downtown Portland, Oregon on Monday.
The “pose” you see here is hardly unique to Portland, so this is certainly no commentary on the common preoccupation on staring at tiny screens. You see that in Portland, you see that in Nashville, you see it everywhere: people staring at tiny screens.
But in this particular moment, I was struck by this thought: We live now in an era when we have all of the recorded knowledge of mankind literally at our eyeballs and finger tips. There are no unanswered questions. We live in an invisible digital ocean of information, and we spend a good deal of our lives retrieving that information.
So how come we wind up with somebody like Donald Trump within striking distance of the presidency?
Enquiring minds want to know. I wonder if I can Google that…