Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
Боб Стајн (Bob Stein): Церемонија за старије доба
Bob Stein has long been in the vanguard: immersed in radical politics as a young man, he grew into one of the founding fathers of new media. He’s wondering what sorts of new rituals and traditions might emerge as society expands to include increasing numbers of people in their eighties and nineties. Full bio
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из средње класе
on the Fourth of July,
ватромет на Дан независности,
under a tree at Christmas.
those traditions got to me,
да доживим ове обичаје,
комерцијални подухвати,
остављало утисак празнине.
an existential hole,
егзистенцијалну празнину,
bigger than myself.
in my family in over a century,
у мојој породици више од једног века,
да бих могао то да покушам.
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
када се мој једини сусрет са рабином,
with flowing white hair,
са дугом седом косом налик Богу,
for my middle name
за моје средње име
of belonging and confidence
утисак припадности и поверења
of my son turning 13
да ће мој син напунити 13 година
of a 13th birthday trip,
о путовању за 13. рођендан.
anywhere in the world
које му је било важно.
who loved turtles,
који је волео корњаче
напунила тринаест година,
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
у подножју Великог кањона,
that she was powerful and brave.
да поседује снагу и храброст.
and lots of our friends and relatives
и многи наши пријатељи и рођаци
on 13th birthday trips,
на путовање за 13. рођендан,
for both the child and the parent.
искуство за дете и родитеља.
before every meal.
који нас све спаја у том чину.
to "pass the squeeze,"
нема везе са религијом.
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
више од 250 кутија препуних ствари
церемонија се пробудио.
than simple death cleaning.
од обичног чишћења пред смрт.
for clearing our your closets,
за пражњење ваших ормана,
before you die,
то да раде касније.
opening up box after box
отварају једну кутију за другом
any of that stuff.
ишта од тих ствари.
at a specific picture
једну одређену фотографију
is that with Dad?"
до врага, ово са татом?“
that were important;
that gave them meaning.
давале су им значење.
to tell the stories
да се испричају приче
not for a 13-year-old,
down the road?
десетина ствари из кутија,
that they found interesting.
што им је било занимљиво.
for a much deeper discussion,
за много дубљи разговор
meaningful connections
успоставили значајне везе
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
са ликом Леонарда Пелтиера
'80-их година двадесетог века,
још увек актуелна.
prisoners in American jails,
у америчким затворима
Movement of the '60s,
покрета из '60-их година
if he'd come of age then,
био другачији да је тада постао пунолетан,
if he could have the T-shirt.
да ли бих му дао ту мајицу.
just about perfect.
established common ground,
успоставили заједничке теме,
that really mattered to them.
које су им заиста биле важне.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
са обновљеним осећајем сврхе -
улогу у будућности.
у 70-им годинама.
to be living side by side.
живе раме уз раме.
and I hope strangers, too,
и надам се и са странцима,
to enter this next stage of my life.
у ово следеће животно доба.
what I was looking for:
оно што сам тражио:
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bob Stein - PublisherBob Stein has long been in the vanguard: immersed in radical politics as a young man, he grew into one of the founding fathers of new media. He’s wondering what sorts of new rituals and traditions might emerge as society expands to include increasing numbers of people in their eighties and nineties.
Why you should listen
Until his early 30's, Bob Stein was a full-time radical activist. In 1981, he spent a year researching and writing a paper for Encyclopedia Britannica -- "EB and the Intellectual Tools of the Future" -- and he has been involved in electronic publishing ever since. In 1984 he founded The Criterion Collection, a critically acclaimed series of definitive films, which included the first supplementary sections and director commentaries and introduced the letterbox format. He also founded The Voyager Company, which in 1989 published one of the first commercial CD-ROMs, "The CD Companion to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony." In 1992 Voyager published the first electronic books, including Douglas Adams's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. In 2004 The MacArthur Foundation provided a generous grant with which Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, a small think and do tank aimed at exploring and influencing the evolution of new forms of intellectual expression. In 2005, the Institute published the first "networked books," which an important milestone in the shift to social reading and writing as discourse moves from pages to screens. After waiting 25 years, since he saw the first public demo of VR, Stein is currently working on a platform to present music and art performance in a shared social space.
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