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Labels: Blogwatch, third-person self reference
posted by Jun Okumura at 6:29 PM
Sunday, September 09, 2007
About Me
- Name: Jun Okumura
- Location: Japan
After graduation, Jun Okumura promptly entered what is now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and stayed in in its ecosystem most of his “adult” life. Along the way, he had pleasant stops in an assortment of Japanese quangos (Japangos?), overseas assignments and government agencies. After thirty years, though, it dawned on him that he had no aptitude whatsoever for administration and/or management. Armed with this epiphany, he went to the authorities and arranged an amicable separation; to come out, as it were. He is completely on his own IYKWIAS, but he and the METI folks remain “good friends.” He currently holds the titles of “visiting researcher” at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (no, that MIGA) and counselor at a risk analysis firm that dares not speak its name. This gives him plenty of time to blog or make money on his own. His bank account says that he does too much of the first, and insists that he do more of what he calls “intellectual odd jobs”. He wants to be paid to write fulltime, or better, talk—where the easy money is—but that distinction has largely escaped him. He really should not be referring to himself in the third person; he is not that famous.
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4 Comments:
Why did you do this?!
Does the humiliation of one, cheer another so much?
Anon
More than making a misguided, anonymous post in total disregard of where it all started? Of course.
Misguided? No I am not.
Small hearted? Yes you are.
To the contrary, my dear, when someone makes inferences from my personal history to make erroneous and critical comments about my views, then it is only fair that such person bear the consequences. He should be thankful that I have posted my comments on this less visited of my blogs.
Really, build someone up so that you can knock 'em down? That's one of the oldest rhetorical tricks in the book.
BTW, a name confers an identity and a corresponding responsibility on you, even if it happens to be the flightiest of pseudonyms, that anonymity does not. Even if you never use that name again, your expressed views and whatever praise, criticism, joy, anger that comes back at you sticks with you forever. You know it, even if nobody else does. Think about that.
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