Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast; Kanye West Isn’t the Only Person Behaving Badly at the Theater
"Manners are not just individual, they are collective. Going to a
theater where thoughtlessness is so blithely practiced is a sad reminder
how we have forgotten, or are forgetting, to occupy collective spaces
in a civilized fashion. Theater noise-makers cut across all boundaries
of class and age; what they share is a selfishness, of which using a
mobile phone is the most visible and rankling example.
Here’s the
thing. You are not at home. There are people sitting next to you. There
are actors, like Bryan Cranston, trying to do their job a few feet from
you. Yes, they are on a set, and yes the stage looks like a fictional
world. But actually, we are all there together, and the social contract
here is that you keep your mouth shut, and let the actors act. They can
hear you. We can hear you."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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