Friday, January 20, 2006
One almost feels like a ghost
The New Year celebrations have not died out completely but the haze has settled. But some times you need the apparent clarity to give way to a fuzzy obscurity to find new ideas and break free, at least momentarily, from the staid and politically sound focus.
I have been a full-timer in the disability sector for about seven months now and I am just about beginning to realize how deeply and widely spread the mainstream view is, well that is why it is called the mainstream. The point I wish to make is that the process of looking at the world upside down can leave one with some very fascinating and troubling insights. This has begun to happen. As most of my peers and seniors in the disability sector would realize sooner rather than later, the need for creating consciousness and political opinion may serve the vital purpose of forcing this country's able-body polity and its policy makers into accepting disabled as equal participants in theory, but a change in the mindset of people around us will at best be superficially receptive. I am afraid there is an immense focus in blending in and whenever possible take the share of morally correct stand that is devoid of all ambiguity.
The hardcore and cold business of advocacy must go on. It has made us a political entity in this nation. We are more than a warning to the sinners and a motivation for the non-believers. We are people who have been out of vision and focus of this society's collective memories. The outcasts who never managed to influence an activity of the collective in realm of polity, economy and art.
It is scary as one almost feels like a ghost.
What I wanted to say in the very first place is that we must experiment with this space as a platform for sharing the personalized view of a disabled negotiating himself or herself and the others.
I have attempted a beginning will it move any further than this.
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