Of Arms and Men

The Roman poet Virgil opens his national epic, The Aeneid, with the statement, arma virumque cano—I sing of arms and the man.  Aeneas, a warrior of Troy, obeys the command of his mother, Venus, and escapes the fall of his city to journey westward to become the progenitor of Rome.

The association of arms with men has been with us for millennia.  Here in America, the image of a man for much of the twentieth century was John Wayne, Winchester rifle in hand, Colt revolver on his hip, and a steely gaze that promised to tolerate no foolishness.

But the radical change that began with the invention of the printing press has brought us to a world in which muscle power and physical action are no longer at the heart of getting things done.  And so we’re having to figure out

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