I came across a pretty cool video produced by some NPR blokes. The link is below, but I wanted to write a quick note with my thoughts.
When I first watched this little micro-doc, I was first taken aback. I was shocked not in that we are unable to walk in a straight line, but that the path we do take, tends to be curved. Huh… If the video is to be correct, and these experiments spanning many years hold up, there is something strange about what we consider to be straight. Now, skip onward if I get a bit stream of conscience here, but I can’t help but think of another interesting web-mined thought I came across. It’s a quote. A simple one at that.
We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t the fish. — Marshall McLuhan
Which is to say, that when one is so engrossed in something. So utterly surrounded, it can’t help but accept things for what they are. It takes an outsider to pinpoint and pinprick a given situation’s essence, which allows others to see the ripples from below.
I can’t help but imagine that the video below, and that the water-fish-reality-(or-is-it-reality-muahahah) quote are somehow intertwined, in some beautiful cosmic harmony, asking us to walk straight into the desert of unknown, and enlighten one and other.
Link – Walking in a Straight Line
Keep on trucking… I think I need a new sign-off.
-Velizou
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