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litheraSo, I had an idea last night and this morning.
It is going to involve a lot of reading and that is something I am good at. I am going to do a lot of research and I'll see if I turn anything up at all. Right now, I think I will attempt to recruit someone else in this.
When I have a better working theory, I will be sure to let you all know.
To sum it up as I have it right now: There are issues in society right now that seem to be glaringly problematic. I want to see if I can track down the societal changes that makes these things possible, even acceptable in some cases. I also want to see if I can track down some sort of pattern - things that happen over and over again in different places. I'm going to need lots of books - history books and primary sources of all sorts.
Right now I can trace certain things back to a certain point in history but I need to know more to fill in the blanks and make sure there is enough there to support what I think - and that I'm just not totally making things up. I need an angle of approach and I think it will be women and power in societal roles as a start. It's something I've thought about a lot. And the converse, really. It's all interconnected. But one thing at a time, yes? (Besides, I'd need to find a guy who wanted to be crazy like me to tackle the other side of it. Just to be fair to it I should probably find one anyway.)
I know. I know. It's huge. It's something that I think will probably be something that occupies me .... forever, but that's okay. It will stop my brain from settling into atrophy without a fight.
Maybe I'll actually come up with something that makes sense at some point. I'm not expecting to find anything that makes sense. Maybe I'll start some sort of think tank eventually.
How do you get money for those sorts of things?
Okay. I'm babbling now.
It is going to involve a lot of reading and that is something I am good at. I am going to do a lot of research and I'll see if I turn anything up at all. Right now, I think I will attempt to recruit someone else in this.
When I have a better working theory, I will be sure to let you all know.
To sum it up as I have it right now: There are issues in society right now that seem to be glaringly problematic. I want to see if I can track down the societal changes that makes these things possible, even acceptable in some cases. I also want to see if I can track down some sort of pattern - things that happen over and over again in different places. I'm going to need lots of books - history books and primary sources of all sorts.
Right now I can trace certain things back to a certain point in history but I need to know more to fill in the blanks and make sure there is enough there to support what I think - and that I'm just not totally making things up. I need an angle of approach and I think it will be women and power in societal roles as a start. It's something I've thought about a lot. And the converse, really. It's all interconnected. But one thing at a time, yes? (Besides, I'd need to find a guy who wanted to be crazy like me to tackle the other side of it. Just to be fair to it I should probably find one anyway.)
I know. I know. It's huge. It's something that I think will probably be something that occupies me .... forever, but that's okay. It will stop my brain from settling into atrophy without a fight.
Maybe I'll actually come up with something that makes sense at some point. I'm not expecting to find anything that makes sense. Maybe I'll start some sort of think tank eventually.
How do you get money for those sorts of things?
Okay. I'm babbling now.
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Think Tank Tracks
Date: 2003-11-15 04:41 am (UTC)Good Luck