Ignorance

You can’t precisely measure ignorance. But you can precisely indicate that you have. Or maybe not. If you cannot precisely measure what you do NOT have, can you measure precisely what you do have? I thought I had a nice collection of LPs but transferring them, most of them anyway, to an iPod changed the nature of “my collection” in ways that I still can’t fully comprehend or describe. At first I thought shuffle play was just a ‘feature’ that grew out of something the programmers could do rather than growing out of any felt need. But in use, shuffling through Hildegard von Bingen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Marisa Monte is well, I don’t know. That is, literally, I do not know. I do not have a mental framework that can neatly handle or process it. And I like that.