CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Sunday, June 5, 2022
We infer the term curate when we speak about the values and merits of a bibliotheca or a museum – appreciating the concept of someone, a group or an organization involved in an assemblage, a collection of things for everyone to see, enjoy and understand.
Those curations are neither good nor bad; they are a collection of interesting, unique or historically significant items.
We also understand the curation concept in the present tense – we see it every day in a newspaper that curates the news, gathering a collection of reportage that tells us what is happening right now.
Real-time has never been more real, and some would correctly argue that what is real or not is more distorted every day than it has ever been. They’ll blame social media, right-wing media, and left-wing media – and they’ll malign the center too.
There is yet another kind of curation – that of curating the future. It is not the world’s future or any community’s approach to pasting together their mission, vision and values.
We need to have the welcome mat out to greet a mixture of good and evil, rights and wrongs, now and next while leaving room for the unforeseen future. The future of us, each one of us, is a curation of what we want to bring along for the trip and what we choose to leave behind.
The future IS ours to see; Que sera, sera!
What I mean, and I’m not expressing new ideas here, recognizing my viewpoint is shifting, and more than ever, I know future days and decades can take whatever shape I determine on purpose rather than on accident.