i love word plays!
i don't know what it is that drains me. whether it is the stress from having to produce a gazillion papers, or the content of the books and articles that i have to plough through.
the world's problems are unsolvable. but it doesn't mean that we give up.
this whole academic industry is the epitome of "thinking too much". thinking about thinking. lol let me off and save my brain. there is no end. but then again if nobody thinks about these things, it's even worse. the problem is, what these people think about seldom translate into real help for the people they study. then what is the point?
what i firmly believe is this - to be a researcher, you must have the guts to be truly unselfish, with compassion and maturity. otherwise you are simply another perpetuator of the capitalist world.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
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2 comments:
hmm... a researcher does what he does... to look at an issue objectively. if every researcher were affected emotionally, i don't think comprehensive research would ever get done. so i think every person has his own role - the researcher finds out, the applicator does it.
guess it depends on what the researcher is researching.. if she is studying people's lives, she can't delude herself by telling herself that she can be totally objective. it is impossible because she can never disentangle herself from her identities and biography. and she has that power over the people she's researching because she is the one ultimately writing the paper and presenting it to the world. it's a common dilemma too.. like she's writing a research study to shed light on their situation to help them. when things go bad while she's in the research field, is she going to remain objective and distance herself, watching everything go by when she actually has the capacity to help and get involved (emotionally as well)? then she's defeating the very purpose that she had started out with. is it really a bad thing to be emotionally affected as a researcher? i think her work will actually present more truth than one who remains distant.
haha. just a lot about of what ive been reading. overload.
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