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A review by xhallie25
Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin
5.0
So many gems in this book.
My favorite: “in my professional and quasi-professional contacts, whose only real trouble is inertia, who work at the most disgraceful jobs in order to pay, for the luxury of someone else’s attention”
Why do we constantly live for other people? Trying to impress people we don’t even know. In modern times with social media…we care more about likes, followers, views, than actually living and enjoying moments. Comparing ourselves to strangers we will never meet. We need less bombast, but these attitudes have pervaded our culture in a country that is obsessed with money, status, etc.
My favorite: “in my professional and quasi-professional contacts, whose only real trouble is inertia, who work at the most disgraceful jobs in order to pay, for the luxury of someone else’s attention”
Why do we constantly live for other people? Trying to impress people we don’t even know. In modern times with social media…we care more about likes, followers, views, than actually living and enjoying moments. Comparing ourselves to strangers we will never meet. We need less bombast, but these attitudes have pervaded our culture in a country that is obsessed with money, status, etc.