Walking into the Stop and Shop the other afternoon just in time to catch a sentence fragment of a dad and his young lad on their way out--Little Guy (LG): "Which would you rather be? Eaten by a shark or a pack of coyotes?"--Bewildered Dad (BD): "What?!? Where's your brother? (spies smaller child over by the bottled water exchange rack) David! Let's go, now!"
So, it turns out there are folks who do watch Shark Week and take it to heart. Wish they'd have come up with someone in addition to a fish taco sponsor, at least online. It's like having lunch in the aquarium cafeteria and discovering they have fish on the menu, as has happened to me. You start mentally reviewing the exhibits you passed through before lunch just in case there was one 'closed for renovation' and it turns out you've now stumbled upon the real reason.
I didn't get to hear which choice Dad opted for though I was impressed with the question his child had posed. Thanks to technology conversions including the Internet and nearly unlimited channels of cable TV, our children now have access to untold volumes of information, probably more before they start school than you or I had by the time we graduated from college.
In theory, this is a good thing, though maybe I'm getting crotchety in my antiquity, but we're not making better choices as we age because we treat all information as knowledge when a lot of it may be just noise. And at the rate of expansion for the world's cumulative knowledge, the good news is NOT that it's not only going to get a lot worse, but, rather, it's never going to get better.
-bill kenny
-bill kenny
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