My Name as Commandment

prompted by Werner Herzog’s The Future of Truth

To read is to draw into the imagination textual representations
of material presented for examination, by imaginations from
across the room, or the river, or the seas, or centuries.

Print is a durable, dependable medium, which is ideal for the
conveyance, across time and space, of thoughts and dreams.

Digital media is easily duped to become fake media; its
speed and ease are undone by the fact that deepfakes get where
they’re sent before the real McCoy knows what’s what.

Consume all the non-print media your imagination craves, but –
word to the wise: get in writing whatever must be true.

Dave Read