I recall a few years ago as I was signing up to participate in a WordCamp event that while filling out the form I responded to a question about speakers I would appreciate at such events, I answered “Amanda Knox”.
Amanda, together with her life partner (and also “business” partner) Christopher Robinson, started a podcast about a half a year ago. I’ve checked out the first few episodes and have also contacted her (i.e., her “team”) about the way I perceive her situation in the “media landscape” (with respect to dependence / independence).
Without a doubt, her life experience so far has been much more “thrust” upon her rather than voluntarily chosen. Nonetheless, I feel she has very admirably chosen to cope with her very public stances by apparently facing them openly and without even just the slightest hint of resignation. I think I would place her intellectually as quintessentially existentialist.
I also appreciate her apparently very healthy sense of humor with her conclusion (mentioned at the end of the quoted podcast episode) that in the end, “I’ll be dead (so I won’t care).”
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