At work yesterday, during a training session for my new job, I was told that even if I found the job boring, I could console myself with the knowledge that I’m working to preserve a fundamental human right. Which is nice and all, but my first thought after thinking that its more a social right we bestow upone ourselves in the belief we’re somewhat civilised rather than anything fundamental to being human, was that the annoying thing about working in such a job, especially when you’ve done all sorts of social activism, is that it lets you clearly see how restricted it is, how damaged it was by the political process, how many exemptions there are because some group or other still wanted to be able to discriminate and fuck people over. Which is kind of a depressing thought after just four days on the job. Oh well, at least I’ve already built up an hour of flex.
April 10, 2008