Human Nature
What did it mean in the 1990s when we were saying the personal computer was a breakthrough on the scale of the printing press 600 years ago, following up on human invention of written languages thousands of years before? Johannes Gutenberg has been declared the “man of the millennium” for his movable letter press which changed cultures, economies and politics. What will happen now with global networks further enabling our demands for knowledge and stoking our language instinct?
might © 1999 Clay Debevoise
Human nature will keep changing. Change is the enduring key with the laws of nature, and with human truths "established by art" (JFK). The universe constantly, dizzyingly, unfolds in strings of every direction and dimension. We know sometimes, and forget. We face constant decisions about following divine instincts or lazy ones until they merge in the sheer presence I hope my art suggests.
"To be, Or not to be" used to be the question. Now it is: "To be, And not to be..." We are regaining "the name of action," beyond altruism, by repeatedly, courageously, remembering our place in communities, alive and dead, forgetting ourselves and not sweating "what dreams may come."