It's been awhile...
And don't expect updates on any sort of regular, semi-regular, yearly, monthly...you-name-it...don't expect it.
I'm sick of everyone's bull. Maybe it's being in anhtorpology and seing everyone trying to be all socially conscience every single sentence of their lives...but that's impossible. Doesn't anyone else just get tired of it? I mean don't get me wrong, I'm totally on the side of being socially conscience and deconstructing our culture and deconstructing ourselves as cultural people, trying to understand our subjectivity. But when do we stop? When is it an excercise in intellegence and awareness, and when is it just a futile attempt to appear self-aware and trendy? We say we can't deconstruct ourselves out of our culture, that we will always have bias...then why do it at all? Why not just stay ignorant? What is all this awareness achieving if everyone else who is not so aware seems happy? Maybe it's just an attempt for westerners to lose their guilt. And in that respect, then I am probably guilty. I want to be an anthropologist because I am interested in the interactions between people, between groups, the differences between groups. But once we deconstruct and "understand" those differences, where are we? We've just made up ideas about the tensions that might very well change tomorrow by someone else's theory. So I guess the point is...what the fuck am I wasting all my time with this stuff for? At least people believe in it enough to pay me for it. And I find it interesting.
I'm sick of everyone's bull. Maybe it's being in anhtorpology and seing everyone trying to be all socially conscience every single sentence of their lives...but that's impossible. Doesn't anyone else just get tired of it? I mean don't get me wrong, I'm totally on the side of being socially conscience and deconstructing our culture and deconstructing ourselves as cultural people, trying to understand our subjectivity. But when do we stop? When is it an excercise in intellegence and awareness, and when is it just a futile attempt to appear self-aware and trendy? We say we can't deconstruct ourselves out of our culture, that we will always have bias...then why do it at all? Why not just stay ignorant? What is all this awareness achieving if everyone else who is not so aware seems happy? Maybe it's just an attempt for westerners to lose their guilt. And in that respect, then I am probably guilty. I want to be an anthropologist because I am interested in the interactions between people, between groups, the differences between groups. But once we deconstruct and "understand" those differences, where are we? We've just made up ideas about the tensions that might very well change tomorrow by someone else's theory. So I guess the point is...what the fuck am I wasting all my time with this stuff for? At least people believe in it enough to pay me for it. And I find it interesting.