I don’t do social
I thought about it. First I felt cross, then I thought about it. What are the implications involved in my boss saying “I don’t do social”. First I was cross because it seemed like attacking what I believe in, social justice as i first translated social conscience. Then quite, sitting in the cyclone’s eye, the ideas cleared, I let my pen writing my thoughts. A white page’s got some magie, hasn’t it ?
First sentence, the pen reminded me that social is an adjective relative to society. So does my boss mean he doesn’t do our society ?
My pen rectified, We can’t do an adjective, sentence uncorrect. My boss, following my pen, thought of a noun, or didn’t finish his word. Social justice ? social structure ? social war ? socail care ? or social-ism ? in clear did he talk politics or sociology ?
I know one thing, like i told you before, he’s a Mr Sarkozy’s fan. Mr Sarkozy wants to be president, so he changed the way he used to talk, he modified what he used to say. usual trick to seem electable (does this word exists or is it the sum of electric and table ?) For example the man used to be famous for saying youngs from the suburb are freaky yobs, and while the suburbs imploded and exploded at the same time he said with authority that hell (oups i forgot the ‘ ! ) cleared the mess with a karsher, powerwull hosepipe made to remove all crappy staff from cars and lowries ( So in his way Mr Sarkozy does a bit of social care !).
Or my boss wanted to talked sociology. And so, but i didn’t understand (At the moment, I didn’t answered at all, i took it as mere provocation) he asked me what were my ideas about Merton, Levi-Strauss, Marx, Trotsky, Bourdieu. And I would have said : “I don’t know, i’ve read Eliade, Jung, Gandhi, Ruskin, thinking genuinely it is sociology too. What i konw is that western civilisation hasn’t stopped yet on one definition of society.”
Or, his uncorrectness was an attempt to merge those two ideas, as aiming to finish a sentence but trapped by its inner linear structure he had to leave the gap empty for he couldn’t choose between the two options, his love for Mr S. and his interest for sociology sciences, a gap i thought was a coma.
