Part two...
Part Two; Round Peg in a Square One Village
This part isn't so simple. I lived for two years at Opportunity Village and it was a tense and hostile environment.
There was domestic abuse, regular violence, drunkenness, suicide attempts and even an unreported death. I was robbed on several occasions, assaulted physically and sexually and was threatened and verbally abused by other villagers as well as staff while I lived there.
My survival mechanism was to recall my old college days and morph into an experimental cultural anthropologist so I could turn my experience there into a covert immersive ethnographic study of the village.
To that end, I have a separate site where I keep those thoughts. THIS LINK will take you there if you are interested. That is also a work in progress, so stay tuned!
NEXT: Part 3; Snake in the Rogue Garden, An Ode to Jerry.
This part isn't so simple. I lived for two years at Opportunity Village and it was a tense and hostile environment.
There was domestic abuse, regular violence, drunkenness, suicide attempts and even an unreported death. I was robbed on several occasions, assaulted physically and sexually and was threatened and verbally abused by other villagers as well as staff while I lived there.
My survival mechanism was to recall my old college days and morph into an experimental cultural anthropologist so I could turn my experience there into a covert immersive ethnographic study of the village.
To that end, I have a separate site where I keep those thoughts. THIS LINK will take you there if you are interested. That is also a work in progress, so stay tuned!
NEXT: Part 3; Snake in the Rogue Garden, An Ode to Jerry.
Fuller...
Never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-Buckminster Fuller