Addendum to mommy issues

I should have finished the chapter before writing my last post.

Merrifield ends the chapter with a framing of Said’s take on the amateur’s role: “[amateur intellectual thought] is a sense of self-worth, an affirmation of engaged activity that hinges on an audience and a constituency. Indeed, is that audience there to be satisfied, a client to be kept happy, Said wonders, or is it there to be challenged, provoked, stirred into opposition, mobilised into collective democratic action?” (p. 16).

Aha! Yes! This is what I’m trying to do!

Maybe in the case of family, I could get audience consent before going all hyped-up provocatrice on them…

And maybe I could also have other modes of interaction…

Love and apologies to my mother, maybe,
Jordie