It always seemed odd to me that 'selling yourself' meant selling your body when that's not really where your self is.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Someone who sells *themselves* is someone who sells the use of their mind to be used in a way they wouldn't use it by choice.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And that strikes me as desperately sad but is something so many of us have to do & accept doing so they can feed their minds better overall.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
If I spend 40 hours a week thinking about selling carpets, I can then buy books & films & games & travel. Poor big-brained apes, we are.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I feel most sorry for children. They're legally obliged to spend several hours a day thinking abt things that don't interest them at all.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And it's years before they're allowed to pick the things that do interest them. I see why it's necessary but it's still a huge imposition.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
At parent's night, science teacher was hounding a boy abt why he wasn't motivated to revise. He cldn't say 'My interests lie elsewhere.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Or rather, he wanted to say it, but knew it wouldn't be accepted.
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I'm not sure he did. They're just told they're lazy & have to focus. Not encouraged to think 'This isn't for me' is an option.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yep. That's what I meant by not accepted. It's thrown back back with "You don't know enough to decide."
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And I think they internalise it tho. Or maybe it was just me. Never occurred to me I was actually quite bright but very bored.
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