Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Emails Unanswered
There are two emails I have sent in the last week, which will likely never garner a response. Not that I don't send emails all the time that are not responded to, but in these instances a response of some sort was implied. Actually,three.
1) An email to a federal regulatory body requesting information about technological issues surrounding a controversial technology. What is the regulatory body for, if not to let the public know about the issue they are regulating? That is a naive questions huh, that is the point of most regulation, to keep things hidden.
2) A short email to my old mentor in grad school, who I had so much in common with and with whom the fallout of our relationship was rather irreperable. It was about Plain and seeing what academia may have planned. Feminist academia. Oh well, no response. I am not the student anymore, who do Ithink I am asking questions of the teacher?
3) A letter to a major group asking for assistance. No reply.
So, maybe there is something wrong with the way I communicate. Perhaps it is out of balance. That is not effective, to be out of balance in the work. But the work has been polarized. Sometimes I can only start over here. The distance across the gap is large. I have not built the bridge yet.
I see myself as a hermit with a hoody on. My hair is greying and I am alone, the children grown, the house empty. I am a mute, I have stopped talking entirely, the us of my voice has been proven unheard. E-mails unanswered.
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