A mock intellectual life When I entered the workforce full time, driven by the mental exhaustion and physical necessity, I quickly realized that I gave - at least momentarily - to devote my life to the intellectual life, analysis of world literature. In short, what was most essential to my life, except love. I thought however that I find time, I find energy to do this while having no. Maybe I thought and the courage to continue. Maybe I really thought there. I do not know.
During these months, I spent a lot of time crying this intellectual life reduced to nothing. Lttéralement cried, I mean. Amelia and Louito devoted, in turn, a lot of time trying to keep me out of this despair in which I could only drift. Then, I do not know why or how I stopped crying. Not resignation, but out of habit, I guess. Thus most people give to life. The difference is that I knew, I always knew that I still know that, within the scope of an incredible opportunity, I would find this sooner or later intellectual life. Together, Amelie and I will. That's all I know.
Still, that has emerged so far with me with more and more strength the idea that it is not really possible for the intellectual life outside the university and institutions, I have managed to an ad hoc basis, especially under the incentive of Amelia. Then, during my teaching - which have nothing intellectual, though they have other qualities more pragmatic, say - and started me engrossed to the point where I became this woman fixed on its objectives, including that of bringing to regain its intellectual life. Fixed entirely on its objectives and therefore have little time for reflection, which may have been useful in my case, who knows.
My summer ended, I began to breathe a bit, then vacuum again struck me during my days at the office. While I was back to more administrative tasks, that is to say (as part of my duties, at least) that do not require much reflection, which are, frankly, fairly mechanical, I had the idea of intellectually stimulate me a bit by listening to podcasts while laboring. I asked my contacts on Facebook and was lucky to discover them through a few jewels of podcasts, as
Radiolab , podcast science exciting and very funny and
This American Life, a literary podcast really nice but much more difficult to listen without devoting his attention.
Listening to these podcasts I felt a little revived even devoted myself to activities most mechanical and I told myself that being a curious person was one of the greatest graces and one the only ways to live happy, live really. I blessed the idea came to me, especially listening to an episode of Radiolab,
"Strangers in the mirror" an absolutely fascinating conference with a neuroscientist and an artist with a strange evil, face
blindbess, that ensures they can not recognize faces. Tragic condition! And yet, listening to this broadcast, I could not help but marvel. As life is amazing and worthwhile!
I managed to spend my days in some enthusiasm until assailed the ide e: but it is a travesty of intellectual life that suddenly I found! Is not this worse than having no intellectual life at all?
I procrastinated with this idea for some time and I'm diving in broadcasts of the CBC allowing me to keep abreast of cultural events (well, what takes place ), but generally insignificant emissions nice that I finally got tired.
And then, last week, I told myself to take everything a simulacrum of intellectual life is better for my survival, to a total lack of intellectual life between 9 and 5 and I started to listen passionately
The mocking evil , a broadcast on France Inter, which allows me to indulge my taste for the macabre, my passion for horror and even meet some curiosity "intellectual" because the trivia there with the most fundamentally terrifying events of history. Since last week, so they are mocking
The evil that just give a little life to my days. And Brett Easton Ellis cheers my evenings and weekends, but I'll talk another time.