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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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I didn't visit anyone in the hospital over the break. I don't know anyone who is ill and had I known anyone or found someone, I would not have gone to visit them in the hospital. I would be uncomfortable questioning someone about their life when they were sick. I think its wrong, people should be allowed their privacy. Yes, sure the have the right to say no, buy even if they had said yes, even if they wanted to be interviewed I'd still feel wrong about it. Why do we always have to analyze everything? Can't we just let some things be? Not everything has to be our own little sociological project. We are so up on our high horse, looking down on people and examining them. Were so fucking great at judging other people but how often do we judge ourselves? Hardly ever. Were fine with observing others and making conclusions about them, but we never seem to bring ourselves to question our own lives.
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Jay - Although this post didn't do the assignment correctly you addressed some interesting ideas. The line that stood out to me the most was, "Were fine with observing others and making conclusions about them, but we never seem to bring ourselves to question our own lives." I agree with you on this point, we are constantly insulting others actions yet we never take time to think about our own behavior. It would be interesting to tie this idea in with illness and dying. Is this why we forget to check in with ourselves and end up wasting time that could of been spent fixing our own problems? What gives us the mentality to want to think so low about other people? You have some good ideas just follow the instructions better next time.
ReplyDeleteI actually found this post interesting, and brought up a few things that caught my attention. One line that I liked was, "I think its wrong, people should be allowed their privacy. Yes, sure the have the right to say no, buy even if they had said yes, even if they wanted to be interviewed I'd still feel wrong about it." I do agree with you on this, because I also felt it was too personal about doing this particular homework assignment. It just feels wrong to observe and analyze ill people.
ReplyDeleteJay,
ReplyDeleteEdit out the distracting use of the Anglo-Saxon for sexuality.
I agree with your general feelings about the need for privacy (particularly when sick) and the dangers of the sociological gaze becoming alienating or superior.
A little hard to leap from there to try to justify not visiting isolated people in hospitals, but if there's a chance to claim a self-righteous soapbox - even just against self-righteousness, we all get tempted. I'd hate to think I was one-upping you by being self-righteous about your noble self-righteousness over our sociological self-righteousness, but maybe its worse if I'm self-righteous about not doing that?
Bottom-line, minus the drama, is that we're trying to explore - in a solidaristic way - essential aspects of the human situation and how our society handles them. You handle this situation with avoidance which you frame as a polite respect for privacy. That spin would be worth your intelligent analysis, a deeper analysis than the one paragraph of handwaving and cursing you offered here.