If a story moves you, act on it

Sisonke Msimang talks about her observation about the story telling, the power of stories and their limitations, particularly the stories interested on social injustice, because stories are everywhere and she considers stories as the antidote bias.

Stories can explain what we are “scare” to talk about, some “tabu” issues that we don’t feel good talking about. She has special interested in not fiction stories, the stories that are more than entertainment and she think that stories don’t necessarily make the world a better place and she presents three reasons to contend this thesis.

1. Stories can create an illusion solidary, you feel good only listen is insufficient to make a social action.
2. Every story had a characters and sometimes we don’t like it, this can’t be reason to involve ourselves in a story and social action, this don’t have to influence us.
3. Media is necessary, credible facts, combined with powerful voices.

In conclusions she say that it’s the justice what that makes the world a better place, not stories. Audience can also help make the world a better place if becomes more curious, if the audience recognize story teller as and intellectual work and finally and on opinion essay the most important is get out of screans and look the real world.

She finish with a quote that I liked so much: “Storytellers can help us to dream, but it’s up to all of us to have a plan for justice”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRC-CQnoeY