Sei urte, nire lau urteko semea eta biok goiko bat ikusi Discovery Channel "shark attacks" bereziak (seguru asko, hau da,). He was very young at the point and I was always worried what he might see on a show like this and how he might take it. I didn’t want him to develop, adibidez, edozein bereziak beldurrak ura edo blab zerbait egokitzat bere lagunak eta, seguru asko, bere haurra lagun sarea sor behera etorri.

Discovery handles these kinds of subjects very well. It’s not about creating a zerbaiten beldur, but rather to show how unusual it is for sharks to attack humans.

Beraz,, we’re watching it and there is this one particularly scary attack involving a small girl. As Discovery is building the drama of the attack, nire semea (nor izan da beti, hala ere, oso jumpy), is getting very excited. I make some noises about how unusual it is for sharks to attack people, and how bad the poor girl must feel. I’m trying to explain that people recover from these events and become stronger for it. Hala eta guztiz ere, I had misinterpreted his excitement. He was not worried about the girl at all. Horren ordez, txaloak, berriz, bere esku, esaten dit, "The sharks love it! It’s terrific. It’s wonderful. Its a DREAM COME TRUE!"

Hau izan zen pentsatu nuen barregarri, but also very disturbing. Alde batetik,, Pozik nengoen, — nahiz eta apur bat harro — indartsu enpatikoa sentimenduak izan zituen, cross-species though they may be. As humans, we need to develop our "empathic muscles" beraz, hitz egin edo, azkenean, ikusiko duzu atsegin Guy honetan 🙂 On the other hand, he was feeling cross-species empathy toward a species who was exhibiting behavior inimical to his own. I was really struggling with this when the narrator used the word "paradigm". My son picked up on that and asked me what that meant.

Hori ez da beti erraza, esaterako, hitz bat, lau urteko deskribatzeko, but I gave it a try. When I think of the word "paradigm", Thomas Kuhn is never far from my thoughts. Irakurri dut Iraultzen Zientifikoen Egitura atzera Lafayette eta, onerako zein txarrerako, the word "paradigm" is pregnant with extra meaning for me. (Sort of like the word "contact" entzun ondoren bat Movie Telefonoa ahots Esadazu non ikusi izan dut duten filma [Liburua izan zen, hobeto pentsatu dut]; Neu naiz beti esan, "CONTACT!" whenever I see or hear someone say "contact").

Hala ere, Berarekin Kuhnian definizioa azaldu ari naiz, that it’s "a historical movement of thought" and that it’s a "way of thinking with a number of built-in assumptions that are hard to escape for people living at that time." Jakina, ezin duzu hitz egin bezala, lau urte bat, so I’m trying to successively define it to smaller pieces and feeling rather proud of myself as I do so. (Dut Bagenekien unibertsitateko kanpoko norbait izan dela irakurri dut Kuhn zaintzeko litzateke!).

I’m just warming to the task when he interrupts me. Waving his hand nire zuzendaritzapean, oro har, eta inoiz ez bere begiak hartuz, beste marrazo atentatuaren off, dio besterik ez zuen, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah.".

So much for that 🙂

Une horretan, Ihes egitea erabaki nuen, rhetorically hitz egin, eseri, eta gozatu marrazo eraso gizakiak behaketa nire semea.

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