Theodor Wildt's development notebooks (8/10)2 reading minutes

Theodor Wildt is a skilled excursionist, a studious prose writer and a brilliant camera operator, sharing textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers.

There was a time when people's social identity was defined by their professional activity, an activity they made a profession of, with varying degrees of job satisfaction. A world where notions of adversity, scarcity and finitude were alive and well. To make the transition from survival to life, effort was both individual and collective, and associated with merit. Whether you were a bank clerk or a housewife, you could congratulate yourself on doing your bit, both for your clan and for society as a whole. The individual defined himself by what he did, i.e. by his means of subsistence, and tried to place his pride in it: «I am a functionary.