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This is the first time that my generation has been old enough to see ourselves as part of a national or international crisis. I was too young to understand the significance of 9/11 and the Iraq War, and still too young to fully comprehend the devastation of the 2008 recession. I have been lucky to grow up rather insulated from these events that distinguished other generations' adolescences. Even so, I am lucky that my life, though it has been shaken up in many profound ways (not the least of which is the interruption of my education), is still intact in other significant ones. So far, my family is still healthy.

In the last two weeks I have found that I am struggling with putting what is going on into the proper context and scale. I have to deal with fears I have never thought about before -- that is, real fear for the health of my family, and the nagging idea that society is somehow falling apart and life as I know it might never be the same. Nevertheless, I don't want to overwhelm or overstate how scared, sad, or nervous I should feel, knowing that I have been very lucky so far. And though I have been very vigilant about staying at home (I have not left the house in two weeks), these efforts are based on a psychological knowing that what I am doing (as a healthy young person) is helping the public effort, rather than a tangible or physical one (as was the case with younger generations, who had to leave home and fight a war or build machines in a factory for the war effort).

But it's only been two weeks - I'm sure my understanding of my place in all of this will continue to shift over the weeks, if not months, that we are kept indoors.



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This is the first time that my generation has been old enough to see ourselves as part of a national or international crisis. I was too young to understand the significance of 9/11 and the Iraq War, and still too young to fully comprehend the devastation of the 2008 recession. I have been lucky to grow up rather insulated from these events that distinguished other generations' adolescences. Even so, I am lucky that my life, though it has been shaken up in many profound ways (not the least of which is the interruption of my education), is still intact in other significant ones. So far, my family is still healthy.

In the last two weeks I have found that I am struggling with putting what is going on into the proper context and scale. I have to deal with fears I have never thought about before -- that is, real fear for the health of my family, and the nagging idea that society is somehow falling apart and life as I know it might never be the same. Nevertheless, I don't want to overwhelm or overstate how scared, sad, or nervous I should feel, knowing that I have been very lucky so far. And though I have been very vigilant about staying at home (I have not left the house in two weeks), these efforts are based on a psychological knowing that what I am doing (as a healthy young person) is helping the public effort, rather than a tangible or physical one (as was the case with younger generations, who had to leave home and fight a war or build machines in a factory for the war effort).

But it's only been two weeks - I'm sure my understanding of my place in all of this will continue to shift over the weeks, if not months, that we are kept indoors.



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