This is autobiography. You may not want public recogition. Or money. That doesn't mean that it's bad if other people do, or that they don't. Frankly, Joanna, you're kind a hippie flower child with anti-materialistic values, maybe learned in Romania. That's cool, I respect that. It's not for everyone. If I had to choose between doing something worthwhile and getting no recognition and vice versa, I'd choose the first. But I'd really appreciate some recognition and respect. It matters to me. That doesn't mean I am a bad, selfish, narcissistic person. Hegel himself teaches that self-consciousness becomes what it it by and for itself only though the recognition of another self-consciousness. It matters to me that people I especially respect think my work is good. It would matter to me more if the opinion were more widely shared. A little extra cash wouldn't be so bad either. I really enjoyed that trip to France and Italy and spending too much money on Florentine leather coats. And being able to send my kids to college. But I'm a bourgeois, middle-class, boomer member of the PMC, too old to be a yuppie now.
--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >Why should people be reproached or resented for
> effectively utilizing
> >resources that they had?
> >
> >Wojtek
> >
> >
> Who said anything about reproaches or resentment.
> All I said was the
> meritocracies make me gag and that I am very, very
> skeptical of their
> claims. I also said that for people who care about
> what they do, being
> able to do it and being able to do it well is what's
> really important.
>
> Like Nietzche said (quoting from memory): "Finally
> what one wants is
> neither blame nor praise, but to be understood."
>
> There are artists, teachers, people... that I have
> personally thanked
> for what they have given me. But I think thankyou's
> are different from
> the public award crap.
>
> Joanna
>
>
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