Homer maintains that the problem of being oneself is that we have spent too much time being oneself and, the truth, and with few exceptions, has worked regularly. Or directly wrong. Therefore, the first thing you learn as soon as you come into contact with the world of work is the urgent need to at least seem like someone else and, if possible, much better. It was the same Homer from before, Simpson, who maintained that in this life there are three fundamental phrases to stay afloat at work: "Cover me", "I was like this when I arrived" and, most helpful of all, "Good idea , boss". All three cover something (nothing good) or are directly a lie. But it does not matter. They are there to maintain the fiction that in the worst case if we do not reach the category of useful at least we do not bother. And so on until teleworking came via teleconference. Zoom gives us away.
Suddenly, the tertulianos face shine, they have dark circles, they comb their hair badly and all the glamor that they gave off on set before the quarantine is reduced to the charm of a drunk brother-in-law whose only virtue is that which does not exist. To morning chatters someone should tell you that phlegm is not a personality trait. The fights that we used to celebrate as another conquest of freedom of expression are reduced to an ugly cacophony of phrases that come in late (or late) and mikes that open at the wrong time. And then there is the bottom. What is behind each one of us. It would seem that in those shots with the carefully neglected bookstore lies the intention of a message ("I have read all these books"), but another different good is transmitted: "All this remains for me to read". There is something almost obscene in that desire to appear as the educated man that has not given us time to be or that, directly, we will never become. And that obscenity resides simply in that in front of the camera of the laptop one ends up being, despite the opposite attempt, oneself. And that, as Homer well knows, never works.
There is no way to lie. Any photography teacher will say that the shot (the shot from bottom to top) is there to add drama and not, as it happens, to reveal the ceiling gotelé and, incidentally, increase the size of the nose disproportionately. It is not that we only go wrong, it is that we also go noses. And that's not to mention what, in the absence of unread books, usually appears on the screen. Let's put the Ikea charts. They are large rectangular paintings that still offer a perfect panoramic view of the New York skyline as a tulip field somewhere low in a low country. They seem like an achievement of cosmopolitanism, but in reality they exist to remind us that there was a long afternoon of foot pain when we made the mistake of buying an ugly and too big painting in an industrial estate, not in the Big Apple or Holland. The abstract composition, let it down, is worse. And the children's drawings work until the offspring turns 20. The other option is the furniture, the one of a lifetime, which includes even a furniture-bar, a Lladró figure and an always-new Larousse encyclopedia, always unopened. Here the desired message is confusing. The idea is to share with the audience that you are a person with solid and traditional ideas. But neither. What you see in the end is a lazy being unable to change the inherited decoration. Encyclopedias, let's face it, are not used. Being yourself doesn't work and Zoom is ruining quite a few professional careers.
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