trying to imagine a culture that would go to the temple to die - or see the human body as something hideous and only made to disease is hard. i mean, this is really hard to imagine .... until you realize it is your culture. this took what william paden said about 'interpretations' into full swing. i was shocked, appauled and wanted to help the people of this place called 'nacirema' but i guess that you cant help what you are fully indulged in. i am part of this place - i couldnt believe it. i made connects like thier daily mouth ritual and us brushing teeth and the place to die being the hospital - i just thought it all to be coincidence, apparently not. when i read this i saw it from my own perspective - with pity - and then when we talked about it being our everyday life in class i saw it from this anthropologist point of view i realized - truely - that everything in life is what you make it, even how we see our own lives. the funniest thing of the whole thing was when eric said, 'i wanted to send them money.' this our world through a lense that sees everything in a way they no one would of thought.
not only did i find this completely shocking but it really took the way we saw doubt, reading paden and our conversations into light - it made me feel like all the work ive been doing over the past couple of weeks came tp a peak - this was what i was supposed to realize.
something that is really intriging me is the Tibetan Buddists - but i will learn more.
journalism is something rather perfect. i love to write, its something i have always loved to do - i made a new friend who is absolutely wonderful and now i get to tell her story through my love of writing: how perfect is that. Michael Camp always has a way of taking our long days a the end and spicing them up just a little bit - touche on making us laugh.
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