Cause and Effect

On a trip recently to Paris I stumbled upon this seen along the Seine which I could not help but wonder what the little girl sitting down was thinking about.  

The image was taken with the Leica M9  

 "Literate man, once having accepted an analytic technology of fragmentation, is not nearly so accesible to cosmic patterns as tribal man.  He prefers seperatness and compartmented spaces, rather than the open cosmos.  He becomes less inclined to accept his body as a model of the universe, or to see his house or any other media of communication, for that matter as a ritual extension of his body.  Once men have adopted the visual dynamic of the phonetic alphabet, they begin to lose the tribal mans obsession with cosmic order and ritual as recurrent in the physical organs and their social extensions.  Indifference to the cosmic, however, fosters intense concentration on minute segments and specialist tasks, which is the unique strength of western man.  For the specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy."

Marshall Mcluhan