That’s Nye on the Truth

I was starting to write that this Bill Nye quote might as well be the mantra for Book Song Movie. It seems like a pretty good match for my approach: rope in as diverse a bunch of people as I can get to talk with me, get them to tell me their favorite works, and do my best to understand why they hold them in such high regard. But there’s something that doesn’t quite line up. I’m all for lifelong learning, but I don’t think the exercise is about finding that thing someone knows that I don’t and extracting it. That seems a bit transactional, even greedy, collecting everyone else’s bits of information like some dragon hoarding gold (that’s a hint that The Hobbit is in one of the upcoming episodes). It’s more about the person than the knowledge, an exercise in trying to understand what the world looks like from where they stand, to try to catch a glimpse of how the light of the world refracts in their particular jewel in Indra’s Net. Everyone else perceives the world in a way that you don’t. Does that work?