The Emperor Has No Clothes
My Son recently showed me a video of Tupac Shakur as a hologram performing on stage with Snoop Dogg. The concert was happening at a place where Tupac had never performed and clearly at a time when he was no longer alive. It is amazing what technology can do. However, I will offer a cautionary note. I remember when Bo Derek, the star of the movie “10”, was credited with creating “corn row” braiding. I remember another time when, in a documentary on the history and origins of Jazz Music, Wynton Marsalis, finding it difficult to maintain his composure, identified a white musician who claimed that he originated jazz. We are living in a time when the distortions of truth abound and, perhaps more alarming, the distortions of our human reality. We...
