A Shot of Reality
Jun. 26th, 2003 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowI talk a lot of myself, and about fandom, and entertainment because I have the luxury of disposible income, and democratic privilege, and the things that make me a citizen of a wealthy, industrial state.
I've had the luxury of looking at my career choices, of having choices in education and employment and lifestyle, and I take those things for granted far too often. I didn't want to be an archaeologist, ultimately, because I felt like I couldn't make a serious contribution to society. That sounds very lofty, but is undoubtedly more ego driven than noble. I shunned my future as a cultural anthropologist because at 22 I was offened by the methodology in fashion and equally offended that my desire to approach things from the reflexive post-modernist perspective was considered passe, as well as unscientific. I didn't see what I could do, and dismissed the profession for awhile.
Here, in this article, Dignity Recovered at Last there's a glimpse of what the profession can offer the world.
The massacres in Guatemala were ignored by the world for a very, very long time. Bodies were buried where they dropped, and noone had the privilege of stepping forward, decrying the terror being rained down upon them. Restitution, identity, none of this will give these people back their families or friends of even their country, but I'm glad that a profession I was part of for a little while did prove that it had something worthwhile to offer.
I've had the luxury of looking at my career choices, of having choices in education and employment and lifestyle, and I take those things for granted far too often. I didn't want to be an archaeologist, ultimately, because I felt like I couldn't make a serious contribution to society. That sounds very lofty, but is undoubtedly more ego driven than noble. I shunned my future as a cultural anthropologist because at 22 I was offened by the methodology in fashion and equally offended that my desire to approach things from the reflexive post-modernist perspective was considered passe, as well as unscientific. I didn't see what I could do, and dismissed the profession for awhile.
Here, in this article, Dignity Recovered at Last there's a glimpse of what the profession can offer the world.
The massacres in Guatemala were ignored by the world for a very, very long time. Bodies were buried where they dropped, and noone had the privilege of stepping forward, decrying the terror being rained down upon them. Restitution, identity, none of this will give these people back their families or friends of even their country, but I'm glad that a profession I was part of for a little while did prove that it had something worthwhile to offer.
