We know more about people we've never known than ever before.
Before now, you did not know who you did not know,
and who you knew mattered mainly to you
and only those who knew you
mattered more.
More than ever
whatever you think is known.
They know you
and know what you think, or think they do.
They do know more than ever,
not about what they know, but about what others think they know.
They think they know something about whatever,
and whatever they think they know
is something to think about.
The ones that now think they know you, you need not think you know,
even though they think you know you know them.
Think about how we know more now than ever before
about people
and maybe people are still learning.
Maybe learning
whatever others think isn't knowing anything.
Knowing anything is better than not knowing what you know.
Is that what people think? I don't know.
You know, without knowing anything about you,
I bet you know more about me than me...
who knows nothing and nobody
ever more than ever before.
Painting by Abraham Solomon (1854), [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
