3 Words: Transformation, Trust, Intense (November 23, 2012 prompt)
Alive
by William Ross
“We really have no other choice than to recontextualize subjective methodologies and paradigms. We must deploy community wide, inquiry-based, scientific pragmatism in an effort to control the plague of ignorance, apathy and naivety that is ravaging our societies. I propose a global reformation of our technological outlook through a use of…”
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I look up from my computer screen, blinking hard to sooth my burning eyes. I am on page one hundred and thirty-two of my doctoral dissertation, but it really doesn’t mean much to me. I know better than to involve myself emotionally or to write something I actually believe in or care about. I made this mistake while working on my first doctorate degree back when I was twenty-six. It was dissected and torn apart and I was forced to revise and edit it beyond recognition. By the time it was finally accepted it was no longer my own; I no longer had anything invested in it. It had become nothing more than a drawn out string of long, fancy words.
