In a piece on the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling site entitled “‘Habits of the Heart’ Storytelling and Everyday Life,” Professor Hamish Fyfe asserts:
… what shockingly bad job the human race is doing of providing a space for all of us to express our cultures, sense of identity and vision for the future.
Fyfe contends that society’s various ills – war, slavery, sexual abuse, and more – are shrinking our space in which to tell our stories.
I wonder, though, if the situation is not just the opposite – that the horrors of society have opened up the space. I keep coming back to 9-11 and how that terrible day multiplied our need to share our stories a millionfold.
We also have unprecedented means in which to tell our stories through all sorts of digital media and collaborative technology, as Fyfe demonstrates by including numerous links to digital stories in his piece.