Origin Stories

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.