(a one-minute story)
A man sits on a blackened stage, at a table. With a microphone and a glass of water, he changes the world, on night at a time. One performance at a time. One audience at a time. One radio at a time, one television news story at a time, he changes the world.
Spaulding Gray, Mike Daisy, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Expose of FoxConn and Apple. It's all a Slippery Slope. Very few women have done this. Perhaps Laurie Anderson would count, but she doesn't so much change the world as change how the mind sees things. ANd she doesn't sit behind a table on a chair with water to drink and not much else. She flits around the stage like a bid, on bare feet, flinging her electric violin at the multi-media images with which she surrounds herself.
Perhaps this is the job of a single man, on a single stage, creating a light in the darkness, shining a spotlight on the black holes in the world.
Sometimes it takes that Monster in a Box.
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