Tell me your origin story as a philosopher.
Sure, if you tell me your origin story as an organisational manager.
And through organisational management. And out the other side. Which is where I am. I think I’m shedding my organisational management skin, like a snake …
Once upon a time, I asked a question so big that I fell into it.
Is that what happened?
Once upon a time … I looked up at the sky, and saw there was nothing.
Is that it?
And I looked at the earth and saw it was nothing. And I looked around me and saw there was nothing.
Sounds Buddhist.
One upon a time, I heard the rustling movement from being to nothing. I’m quoting … And what about you? How did you become an organisational manager?
I met my husband. Or rather, he was teaching me. He was my lecturer. And I was just an innocent Business Studies student.
You studied Business Studies? You actually signed up for Business Studies?
I wanted to make my way in the world. Not just be another unemployed humanities grad …
Without unemployment, there’d be no philosophy. You know that, don’t you?
Typical: the rest of society has to pay for you to lie about and contemplate ...
I can’t believe it: I’m literally flirting with the right.
And I’m literally flirting with the humanities.