Eyes on the Tiger
A tiger is an apex predator. In the wild, they are mostly found in Asia. If you are a deer, aging and having trouble keeping up with the herd, or just an ordinary ungulate, you are always scanning for tigers. They use the woods as camouflage, then quietly stalk and ambush prey. You don’t know where they will appear next. This past year has felt like one in which one must keep one’s eyes open for trouble. In ordinary years, you might take your eyes off the political ball for weeks at a time, as our three-pronged government, president, congress and court system, go about their business. Not this year. This year, the tiger stalks, and everyone consumes more media than they want to, fearful of what might happen if they don’t keep up. Having lived with Don, who makes media, and who has pointed out that “nothing in a rectangle is true,” I am able to take media with a grain of salt. By design, it is conflict-driven, colorful and looking for action. Experiencing things in two dimensions, th...
