Quoting Ether in Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, Ch. Day 1, p. 61

This is a trick I learned living off the grid. Ironically, wearing high-vis gear makes you invisible; people assume you’re part of a landscaping crew or something, which means they don’t catalog your face since you’re not considered a real human being.

[…] you’re trying to pin down what kind of person I am. If I say I’ve been living on the streets for the last two years, do you start to worry? If I say I’ve been working as a kindergarten teacher, do you feel safer? It’s weird how we assign personalities based on employment.

— Ether in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, Ch. Day 1, p. 61

1:14pm on October 27, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.


uid: 94ae7d33-7051-4a02-945d-a2ba375fbbc5
creator: Silas Jelley
primary: references
secondary: quotes
available: 2024-10-27 13:14:20
created: 2024-10-27 13:14:20
updated: 2024-10-27 13:14:20
slug: 2024/10/27/131420
source: {'title': "I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom", 'character': 'Ether', 'creator': 'Jason Pargin', 'published': datetime.date(2024, 9, 24), 'chapter': 'Day 1', 'pages': 61, 'publisher': "St. Martin's Press", 'text': 'This is a trick I learned living off the grid.\nIronically, wearing high-vis gear makes you invisible; people assume you’re part of a landscaping crew or something, which means they don’t catalog your face since you’re not considered a real human being.\n\n[...] you’re trying to pin down what kind of person I am.\nIf I say I’ve been living on the streets for the last two years, do you start to worry?\nIf I say I’ve been working as a kindergarten teacher, do you feel safer?\nIt’s weird how we assign personalities based on employment.', 'wordcount': 96, 'html': 'This is a trick I learned living off the grid.\nIronically, wearing high-vis gear makes you invisible; people assume you’re part of a landscaping crew or something, which means they don’t catalog your face since you’re not considered a real human being.
\n[…] you’re trying to pin down what kind of person I am.\nIf I say I’ve been living on the streets for the last two years, do you start to worry?\nIf I say I’ve been working as a kindergarten teacher, do you feel safer?\nIt’s weird how we assign personalities based on employment.\n'}
filename: /home/silas/notes/2024/10/27/131420.md
title: Ether in Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, Ch. Day 1, p. 61
interlinks: []
backlinks: []
tags: []
wordcount: 0