Stories like this one usually give me bunch of really uneasy thoughts and feelings. It is difficult to avoid comparing own life path and choices to other people's - she achieved incredible things, saved lives and will be inspiration for many. And here I am, sitting countless hours behind screen,doing all these irrelevant things, writing code which maybe will increase someone's profit insignificantly. It is like it is.
But working under Catherine Hamlin are a bunch of people doing "irrelevant" things. Someone has to empty the garbage bins in the wards, but the hospital wouldn't work without that person. You don't have to run the show to be making a contribution.
You can, however, choose the circus you join. If you feel meh about what you do and you feel meh - or worse - about the organization you do it for, it's normal to feel uncomfortable.
I've always wondered how an infosec specialisation could contribute to this kind of organisation instead of working exclusively for massive companies. I just have not seen the possibility yet I guess.
> Stories like this one usually give me bunch of really uneasy thoughts and feelings.
Stories like these are exactly that - stories. Nobody is a saint. Not in this world.
People said the same thing about mother teresa and she turned out to be an awful person who enjoyed seeing the suffering of others.
Gandhi? MLK? [insert any name of a media's "saint"].
Ultimately, we find out that they were all too human and the sainthood bestowed on them by the media is bullshit.
> And here I am, sitting countless hours behind screen,doing all these irrelevant things, writing code which maybe will increase someone's profit insignificantly.
The true heroes are the ordinary people who labor away in anonymity. There has never been a truly good person on the BBC or any major "news" site.
It does not follow that because all people are flawed that she was a monster nor does it follow that since some people have been portrayed inaccurately that she was.
>The true heroes are the ordinary people who labor away in anonymity. There has never been a truly good person on the BBC or any major "news" site.
This is fetishizing following different biases as being an individualist.
If the mainstream press reports 2 + 2 = 4 saying it's 17 isn't brave its a failure of analysis.
> It does not follow that because all people are flawed that she was a monster
It does not follow because you just built up a straw man. I didn't say she is a monster, I just said nobody is a saint.
"Ultimately, we find out that they were all too human and the sainthood bestowed on them by the media is bullshit."
> If the mainstream press reports 2 + 2 = 4 saying it's 17 isn't brave its a failure of analysis.
In this case, it's the media who is saying it's 17. As I pointed out, every "saint" created by the media propaganda has been shown to be far from it. From gandhi to mlk to even lincoln, hitler, mao, you get the idea.
