Rear View Mirror

  I have just read David Carr's account of his addiction, and seen his interview on the Colbert Report, where he states that he is capable, sporadically,  of imitating a human being and I can pompously say that Plato's Allegory of the Cave comes to mind.  We aren't able to see any truth if we try to depend on our senses.  Else there wouldn't be so many versions of what has or is happening.  We can find the truth only by intellectualizing, and most of us never find the way to do so. David Carr struggles with this predicament and his awareness  makes his account  compelling.  (It seems so profound, my changing of the font, and so appropriate somehow, the more so because it occurred spontaneously and I lack the ability to undo it.)