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I'm not sure why I started to do it.
I think my earliest ah-ha moment was at twelve, when I read Huizinga's "Waning of the Middle Ages" and he said something like "No modern reader can appreciate the warmth of a fire as a European of the fourteenth century could." The idea that even sensual experience could be a relative thing struck me as a deep truth. But, I don't know, I remember a deep anti-authoritarian streak from forever, and I think my wanting to test all assumptions must have come from that. It has its good parts and its bad parts. The bad? Lots of anxiety.
Or maybe, it comes from always being an outcast for one reason or another, so that I wanted to question the prejudices that held the group together.
Joanna
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> I never stopped looking. I don't think this is very common.
> It would be good to understand why.
Do you remember why you started to do it in the first place?
There's kind of a circular problem here: not many people think of it that way, including teachers and parents. So not many people impart the wisdom via either teaching or parenting. And on it goes.
/jordan
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