Aylan Kurdi is in the news. The limp body of the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned during the sea crossing to Greece is on everyone’s mind. And the plight of the refugees has suddenly turned a corner in Europe and beyond. The doors of Austria and Germany have been flung open at last. A single picture is worth not only a thousand words, as the old adage goes, but zillions of them. And a moving picture is worth a thousand still ones. That is how the human mind works for true. Which is why no argument, no matter how cogent, has much of a chance. And especially if it has to do with a future still hazy. The more cogent the argument happens to be, the more boring will it get in that particular case. As well as annoying, and perhaps even irritating to the point of a bloody reaction. Yes, the human mind works here and now only, but especially when all the senses are involved in concert. For what are six-million years that separate humans from their closest relatives, the chimpanzees? Geologically, it is but a blink of an eye. Be that as it may, here is a tear for little Aylan. A big one, too.