| One of the social problems of having no job or no conventional job is finding answers to that awkward question, "What do you do?". These days, it's couched slightly differently, just before the rant about unemployed, suntanned men on benefits shirking in the pub, "So have you retired?". One solution is simply to lie. "Well I'm mostly resting, but I'm also doing a PHD in PsychoGeography". But then Charles Stross came up with this in the comments to his article comparing Osbourne's call for full employment to the return of slavery. "I have found that answering the 'what do you do' question with 'I tell lies for money' really weeds out the sheep from the goats." Oh yes. 'I tell lies for money' is exactly what an awful lot of us do and did in our normal white collar jobs. Or is that too cynical even for moi? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/04/a-nation-of-slaves.html#comment-1951978   A nation of slaves - Charlie's Diary »The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by ... [from: Google+ Posts] |
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