This is drawing #2 for the “What Matters Now: Proposals for the New Front Page”-event.
Who You Are Is What You See I
So I’ve decided to do a couple of sketches for the “What Matters Now: Proposals for the New Front Page”-event. This is sketch #1.
Obviously, some super-deep thinking has gone into this, along the lines of Xenophanes, who famously insisted that if horses and cows had hands, the horses would draw pictures of gods that look like horses, and the cows would draw gods as cows.
What Matters Now To Me
Later this week, I’m supposed to give my answer to the question “What Matters Now: Proposals for the New Front Page” at the Aperture Foundation. To answer a question, one must first understand it. Consider this:
(i) At the end of a two week period of discussing what matters now, ‘what matters’ will have changed — yes or no? If yes, did it ever matter?
(ii) If what matters is relative to a given time, is it also relative to a given person? If yes, does what matters to me matter to you?
(iii) In saying that x matters, are we making a statement that is true or false? Or do we express a feeling that x is important? Should the Front Page be a place to express feelings or not?
(iv) Or do we say ‘x matters’ because we think it is expected to say that x matters? Would that be newsworthy?
(v) Do we enjoy saying that x matters — if yes, why do we enjoy saying it? If not, why not?
The only point about being on a panel, so I am told, is to be invited back. Since everybody hates people who answer a question with a question, I guess what matters now is to come up with some answers…