DDT - Daily De-Tox
Day 074
S. selling
"Reader! Do you remember the glorious days when selling something was just the job of a sales(wo)man? And how one felt that as pretty ok? Because if your job is to sell something like, let's say, suspenders, there is nothing bad to say about. Just their job. Nowadays, though, everyone has to sell. And not only that, everyone has to sell themselves! 'You don't sell yourself right, Mycle!' As an undaunted Romantic I remember that at least the lonely planet of artists had some degree of integrity: most of them where somewhat ashamed to sell themselves. Because one of their intentions, or rather the subject of investigation was to be themselves. How do you sell yourselves? And which part of it first? Your soul? Oh, you never found out what that is anyway? Comes in handy, right? Reader, I wonder how that developed. I don't want to appear too sarcastic here, but I remember that there were times when something else existed as life's philosophy than merely materialism. Which was always fought by the West when it was a synonym for communism in the East. Today that really appears like a bad joke. Rather one could say that the tougher no-nonsense version of materialism (Darwinist Capitalism) won against some sort of 'socialist' materialism. Somehow I have the strong notion that simplistic post-pubertarian approaches to life will be put straight by life itself. But how much damage can it do before? Reader, let's dream a real fantastic dream right now and let's drop the entire selling mentality instantly . . . let it go now . ."
