Bridging the dreams of e-culture and the constraints of everyday life
From time to time our class turns to the discussion of the gap between the lovely dreamlike world of fantastic technology in e-culture, and the grey qualities of the "real" world, where getting a job is increasingly competitive, where paying the rent is more expensive than ever (especially in Paris), where living expenses exceed your paycheck, where someone steals your car while you're teaching, and, in short, a place where dreams seem to have no place at all.
It's no picnic out there, is it? This is where the rubber meets the road: where your motivation has to meet the hard reality of the job market or whatever realworld constraints you have set up for yourself, from motherhood to teaching aspirations.
I am a little hard pressed to find suitable words to explain this, still mourning the recent loss of my old faithful C15. I appreciate what one student, Christine, said today. She said, maybe this new e-ecosystem is a response to the old culture, our only way of dealing with that "real" world out there that sends us obstacles every day.
That's why I think we have to hold onto our dreams to bridge the gap between e-culture and the real world we are creating with jobs and careers. One of the characteristics of this new environment is the way we can bring together who we really are with our career and business or organizational goals. That is what is producing amazing results like this lovely browser, Firefox, on our computers, or Wikipedia in our bookmarks, and thousands of other dreams realized on the web and in e-culture.
As Green Girl put it, maybe we have to fight for these things, to make it happen.
It's no picnic out there, is it? This is where the rubber meets the road: where your motivation has to meet the hard reality of the job market or whatever realworld constraints you have set up for yourself, from motherhood to teaching aspirations.
I am a little hard pressed to find suitable words to explain this, still mourning the recent loss of my old faithful C15. I appreciate what one student, Christine, said today. She said, maybe this new e-ecosystem is a response to the old culture, our only way of dealing with that "real" world out there that sends us obstacles every day.
That's why I think we have to hold onto our dreams to bridge the gap between e-culture and the real world we are creating with jobs and careers. One of the characteristics of this new environment is the way we can bring together who we really are with our career and business or organizational goals. That is what is producing amazing results like this lovely browser, Firefox, on our computers, or Wikipedia in our bookmarks, and thousands of other dreams realized on the web and in e-culture.
As Green Girl put it, maybe we have to fight for these things, to make it happen.
posted by Bob at 8:36 PM
1 Comments:
Dear Bob,
Thanks very much for your comment on my blog.
I'm pretty much sure you've had a big deal of success as a teacher this year too, and that your students will benefit from your imput, both on the language side and the e-culture side. If people were looking miserable on our last class, it's probably because everybody was over exhausted and in real need of a holiday.
And you know how it is in France: people like to moan ANYWAY! :- )
Did your car get knicked? Very sad to hear about this. But that's another aspect of E-Culture in my point of view: the more comfort and technology increases for some people, the more poverty and misery increase for others. Sadly enough, E-Culture to me has also a lot to deal with precarity...
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