3 min readSep 17, 2023
Museums Require Civil Society
I just came back from the supermarket. At the supermarket, a woman was having a very loud conversation. Her hair covered her ears, so you couldn’t tell she was speaking to someone on an ear microphone. It was disconcerting. I was in the vegetable section, and all the other people in the area were looking at each other, unsure if the woman was speaking to us. It was awkward because she was speaking loudly, and she was also using profanity. She was sometimes…