the unnamable

” It’s not easy to be an English major these days, or any student of the humanities. It requires a certain kind of determination, and a refusal — an annoying refusal, for some of our friends and families, and for a good many employers — to make decisions, or at least to make the kind of “practical decisions” that much of society demands of us. It represents a determination, that is, not only to do certain things — to read certain books and learn certain poems, to acquire or refine a certain cast of mind — but not to do other things: principally, not to decide, right now, quickly, how you will earn your living; which is to say, not to decide how you will justify your existence. For in the view of a large part of American society, the existential question is at the bottom an economic one: Who are you and what is your economic justification for being?”
–www.markdanner.com