Actually in my case it was much more confusing, as what people seemed to imply were defects (even, indirectly, in the sense that they seemed to indicate something non-specific was wrong) was just a different cultural character structure. That's like, supposing you come dressed in a fur coat for hot weather. My reactions were very inappropriate for the particular culture, but not so inappropriate for my own. In the pressure of the ensuing crisis, I simply threw as much of everything that I could overboard, including large parts of my former self. Then again, having to deal with this rupture and sudden change to cultural and historical contexts is why I call myself a historical shaman, not an ordinary one.
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