Re: [-empyre-] residing in cyberspace

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Christine Goldbeck wrote:

> I am hoping that people, men and women, who are marginalized in their own 
> culture, can use this cyberworld to explore those identities and dreams and I 
> am hoping that new media storytellers and artists are able to show them the 
> way through our work.

Just a minor point - this for me has always been a sore point. We can 
learn more from marginalized people, I think, than we have to offer. We 
can talk and talk, but we rarely really listen. I run into this in the 
US when I hear blanket condemnations of the south, or the 'red states,' or 
whatever; very few people have actually listened, for example, to southern 
preachers, or tried to learn the difference between one church and another 
- and yet the same people, outside people, feel they can lead the way.

I know what you're getting at, but this troubles me.

- Alan



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