Since they've started showing up on my timeline, and since I have no idea how to stop it happening, I've found myself only reading articles on the Guardian website that portray me in a good light. Or, probably more pertinently, in what I presume portrays me in a good light. Something lefty political, something whimsical and cultural, something about bees, an article about Wayne Rooney that slipped in because I forgot all about my template for public perception. It's a fucking minefield.
I suppose this is the modern day equivalent of arranging books on my bedside table if I'm expecting to bring someone back to my room. The collected works of Orwell, Race for The South Pole, The ragged Trousered Philanthropist, and whatever trashy piece of shit I'm actually reading.
Of course, engineering a perception of me like this is entirely useless given that it becomes immediately obvious what sort of a brain-fried moron I am within about a minute and a half of meeting me. But hey, it fills seconds, minutes and hours, dunnit?
I suppose this is the modern day equivalent of arranging books on my bedside table if I'm expecting to bring someone back to my room. The collected works of Orwell, Race for The South Pole, The ragged Trousered Philanthropist, and whatever trashy piece of shit I'm actually reading.
Of course, engineering a perception of me like this is entirely useless given that it becomes immediately obvious what sort of a brain-fried moron I am within about a minute and a half of meeting me. But hey, it fills seconds, minutes and hours, dunnit?
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