Modern Privacy: Reclaiming Our Self Narratives
- All levels
- 18 and older
- $20
- 828 Broadway, New York, NY
- 90 minutes
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So why does privacy matter? One reason is that it gives us control over our own “self-narrative” – control over how we are perceived by others. Being able to decide, to some degree at least, what information people do and do not have about you is crucial to navigating modern society. Psychology teaches us that first impressions are formed quite quickly, are usually based on only few pieces of information, and are very hard to dislodge. Unfortunately, our opinions of others usually have little regard for the depths of their lives and the capacity of all individuals to grow and change. While we all, as Walt Whitman put it, “contain multitudes,” to live in modern society is to make snap judgments and place other individuals into neat little packages. The full spectrum of human emotion and experience is too often reduced to a small group of facts. Being able to exercise some control over those facts is regarded by almost every society as a fundamental right.
The protection of personal privacy is one of the foremost concerns facing our civilization in the digital age. Those of us who are old enough to remember life before smartphones are keenly aware that Americans today enjoy significantly less privacy than our parents and grandparents did, and this trend seems to only be accelerating.
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