We live in an age of talk. There are the talking heads on TV. There is talk radio. We go to lectures and gather for classes and discussions. Everyone talks and very few listen. Talk, talk, talk!!!
In our age of technology, we have theories about everything. The information age overwhelms us with volumes and volumes of graphs, books, and reports.
Maybe it is time to put the books and the theories aside for a while, stop talking, and go out into the real world and experience reality. Mayhaps reality might still be better than the virtual world.
Walt Whitman urges us to experience life as it really is in the following poem:
Copyright © Jay D Weaver - January 25, 2003
When I heard the learned astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick.
Till rising and gliding out I wandered off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
- Walt Whitman