A Word By Any Other Name

by, Dr. Bill Thomas

Long time readers know that I have an abiding interest in mashups.

One of the virtues of our digital age is the marvelous fluidity with which we can combine, separate, recombine and redivide seemingly unrelated sounds and images.

This video is a kind of mashup tone poem that stretches, flexes and reinforces words and the meanings of words.

Yummy.

Real care and real change in our health care system require exactly this kind of fluidity and facility with non-intuitive leaps of imagination.

This is much more difficult than it looks mainly because our adult minds are constantly drawn back to the literal and the familiar.

Words are our prison— and our wings.