Today my friend Alec showed me this picture:
The image is just so brilliant in its perfection — these young Buddhist monks looking at the virtual world they hold in their hands. One notices upon their faces an expression of total serenity, of peaceful acceptance of this new reality.
It is a new world my friends, a world you and I will never truly understand, however hard we try. For it is their world — it belongs to these young children who breathe these pixels as freely as the air, who understand this reshaped reality, this parallel universe, for it is the world into which they were born.
You and I may stare at its wonders, as one stares through a glass darkly lit by visions of things yet to be. But for those being born into it, even as we speak, it is not a glass but a doorway — a doorway that leads to the only home they know.
In regards to your title, look at the bottom illustration on this page– St. Paul wearing sunglasses.
http://www.college-optometrists.org/en/knowledge-centre/museyeum/online_exhibitions/spectacles/invention.cfm
I believe that we are the ones, that should make sure that all of our children live in an open and tolerant society,where they can explore and try all the doorways we never dreamed of. That might me our only responsibility.
Actually this is the coolest picture I have seen for some time.
Doug: Great image!! What’s even more cool about it is that the phrase “through a glass darkly” is from St. Paul. He says it in Corinthians 13:12, within his long disquisition on love (αγάπη).
Dagmar, that is a lovely thought!!!! 🙂