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It just occurred to me from from a trip to the hospital that we are all learners within learners within learners. For instance, doctors learn in school and then become diagnosticians who learning aids them in a higher level of learning to extract information from patients in order to treat them. In my situation, the doctors have reached the level of “learned” in order to practice medicine but have lost the learning skill and just pronounce whatever it is that comes into their fat heads. They reason from a position assumed to be qualified but guarantee they are guessing–and maybe not even that.

In other words the learning has ended and the pronouncing has begun. In the auto ethnog I suspect most of us remain in a state of what might be called “incompleteness” in order to access our learning spirits. Not sure this makes sense but to approach the “individual in progress” that is represented by our ethnographic statements brings up the odd image of catching someone in a kind of ethereal context that escapes conclusions?