which the ruler?

we evolve with our tools

I am intrigued 

by who the master and who the servant,

the technology of reading and writing 

seems to have empowered us

but we lost much of the dialectic of verbal discourse

and the training of memory,

the technology of the Internet 

seems to have empowered us

but also it’s reshaping us,

which of us the ruler? and which the follower?

our minds contend with our tools.

thanks to

Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf

for much of the thoughts above.

by Henry H. Walker

February 12, ‘16