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At the bookcafe at work, there an exhibition with photos from Bangladesh. The photograph supports a movement that educates girls in Bangladesh. So far so good. What I reacted to is that they educated the girls in "small-scale crafts". To me it sounds like, and note that this is just my thoughts as a dilettante on the developing world, a romantic fantasy. I’m not saying all girls in rural Bangladesh should grow up to make cutting edge research on quantum physics or genomics or A.I. or whatever, but is “small-scale crafts” really the future?

It made me think about Freeman Dyson article Our Biotech Future that now ten years old. Read more... ) 

 The other thing from work I want to share is that I saw a photo of a peace monument from 1955 in Sweden. The thought of a peace monument made me think that if I ever get another tattoo it would be of the Non-Violence monument outside the United Nations Headquarters, New York (pic: Wikimedia).



About the Swedish monument. The thing is that the statute i question celebrate the peaceful splitting of the union between Sweden and Norway in 1905. That was 50 years after the dissolution, a hundred years after the dissolution we let american artist Jenny Holtzer make an exhibition about itEnd of lecture.
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 A psychologist I recently met to get help with derealizationand panic attacks said something like this: "It is society's duty to ensure that everyone has a place in society. If someone is outside, it's a failure of society not a failure of the individual." It feels like a Swedish thing to say. The opposite would be a much harsher "sink or swim"* attitude. That feels American to me. Well it is perhaps not that simple that one idea is Swedish and one American. For one thing the psychologist was not originally Swedish, she was from Bulgaria. (Sure having healthcare professionals from abroad are probably not just typical Sweden but typical for the whole western world.)
 
Anyway I have again, for real this time, made the decision to give up on studies. I had been accepted to a program for biomedical analyst, but I know I would not be able to do it. Sure I’m bitter about it. I’m smart and work hard, but I have a disability that affect my executive functions, making it impossible to study. At the same time the job I have done the last fifteen years have been monotony and are hardly even close to my full potential. I have had at least one employer who said I’m “underutilized”. So is it my fault or society's fault that I can’t reach my potential. That I’m traped in works there I don’t get to live out my full potential. There society doesn’t get me as the most effective worker they could get.
 
* I'm sure I used the phrase right: The meaning of "sink or swim" in the first dictuary I find with google: "If you are left to sink or swim, you are given no help so that you succeed or fail completely by your own efforts".

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