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RE: The Restaurant - A comic
Best episode of Black Mirror to date, IMO.
I can definitely see a parallel between that episode's "universe" and Steemit's. I tend to identify more with the woman truck-driver (don't know her name off of the top of my head) than with Lacy, though...well, that is, until she was jailed.
I have too much pride to bend in any way for popularity/ approval and I have the tendency to go against the grain with the sole aim of "flipping-off the status quo" - a very painful weakness (strength?) to suffer from!
I am mixed, part Lacy part truck driver! I used to be Lacy early in life, straight A's in school, etc. I was very quiet. Obedient. Now, not so much but Lacy is still there in me. I am leaning more and more towards the truck driver, and when I made the Steemicide episode of Dollar Vigilante, that is my true nature coming out.
Funny. That describes me almost to a T!
As I got nearer to graduating high-school, I found it more and more unbearable to make efforts at appealing to the "authorities" and peers: teachers, parents/ grandparents, friends, etc. It got to where I simply couldn't respect myself anymore for being "fake" (charming) - I felt compelled to be "real", even if it meant that I got "rewarded" less than before.
Very well said.
Thank you.