The following quoted post is from an author who's name I don't remember. She (I remember her gender) had an event at the Parthenon in Nashville. It was called Curtain Up Curtain Down. Imagine a large plastic shower curtain with old photos, newspaper clippings, a collage of words and images about the modern world that we live in. Now that you've imagined that, read the quote below and see if it rings true for you:
"Curtain Up. We are players on a global stage, capable of action, empowered by brave new tools of information and connection. I can instantly and easily access the sweep of history or learn the names of mollusks or send pictures to my mother or contact my senator or donate to a worthy cause or build community with neighbors everywhere.
Curtain Down. Information overwhelms me--I am drowning in paper and email and voicemail. I am seduced, paralyzed, obsessed by the web. I follow endless link trails into nowhere. I am entangled in connections, and burdened with my past. I am aware of more injustice and destruction and corruption and violence and horror than I can comprehend. My head spins. And though I am enraged and called to action by a thougsand awful things, I do not act. It's curtains, I fear, for all of us.
Curtain is a borrowed, found recycled, made-up fragment of a story. This is a fearful, playful, hopeful, shared attempt at reclamation. An invitation."
Curtain Up.
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