Thirty: Becoming Unemployable (08-18-2022)
What gives a person the right to opine? Recently stumbled across the resume of a small-time American architect, who opted to itemize every award, jury, and project or publication they ever worked on. Noting that their work was limited to the American Northeast, it's likely this vanity and prestige bragging was not a conscious effort to appear superior but a reflection of the Puritan-American obsession with accomplishment and credential. This site has already discussed briefly the needlessness of citation and professional justification, but here is a good time to discuss the result gathering numerous credentials and sharing them publicly- the feeling of being righteous in opining on a topic.
Most media pundits, especially so for political pundits, are preceded by their credentials and experience. Their opinions are supposedly justified by their possession of numerous academic honors and publications, even after the rigor of hard and soft science publication has been called into question. It's not unusual for media platforms to introduce so-called common folk, who lack these prestigious badges, to give their opinion, which is always weight differently if not lower, but never higher than the opinions of the credentialed pundit. A common person, who experiences the downstream effects of any policy, action, or blitz, is not considered a valuable source on those conditions, paradoxically.
This website is host to the musings and opinings of someone, without the listing of their credentials. Certain aspects of their identity could easily be gleaned from their writing, but to a layman, they are uncredited and untrustworthy. This is an ideal place to be, as it means that even the most obnoxious opinion will not be taken seriously enough to warrant controversy, and any controversy can be dispelled by means of humor.
In other news, by five PM today I'll be unemployed again. It's a lovely predicament to be in, and just wait until you see what happens next.
This is not a threat of violence or spectacle, there's a very normal and acceptable thing I'm going to do, but by covering it in mystique I can internally believe it to be special in some way.