7) the artisanal ideal
In parallel to all the previously accounted developments (my drifting apart from Buddhism and embracing Edward Said’s secular stance, all of which amounted to a move back to being honest to my European cultural background, very much in line with what the other influential figure of this stage of my life, Stephen Batchelor, had himself done before), in my job, situated in the field of translation, with the years I had developed my own point of view, regarding translation (and textual, language related work in general) as an artisan profession, which, in turn, rendered me more and more interested in the world of craftshumanship and, consequently, the ideals connected to it.
