Currently Im writing an essay On Being (Beachy Amish) Mennonite. And Im trying to identify the good and the bad in the culture that I grew up in. Its difficult. Its like Im a grape or maybe wine. Just as the many variables; weather, soil minerals and acidity, pruning method, and time of harvest; combine to give the grape its terroir, so I am the product of the culture I was raised in. Just as the grapes; both big and small, sweet and sour; are crushed together in the winepress, so the good and bad of my culture has been crushed together so completely it is inseparable. There are no longer individual good or bad grapes. There is simply wine. This is an insufficient and somewhat confusing analogy. Am I the wine? Am I the grape? Or is my culture the wine and are all the different components that make this culture what it is, the grapes? Im trying to use it both ways. Either way, I drank the wine. And its awfully hard for me to see clearly. Im drunk on myself, drunk on my culture. Im biased. Im reactionary. My vision is blurred. But its good for me to try to think these things through. Who knows, maybe it will help me discover a little more of who I am; why I am. Why I am who I am.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:46:27 +0000
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