IN the push world one pretends you can anticipate the market.
The filmmakers have peeked into the abyss and averted their eyes... [the film] warns that you can't go home again – and then, full of false cheer and false consciousness, pretends you can".
And when you can't see yourself, or when your community tells you to bury an essential part of you or just pretends you don't exist at all it becomes impossible to envision a future in which you do.
And even after the sad $100 you offer him (and your desperate offer to pay "whatever it takes" to get a table), the doorman still pretends you don't exist.
Whether the takeout place always misspells your last name, even when you spell it to them on the phone, or a store clerk pretends you don't exist when you have a question, spit it out...calmly!
If your wife has decided on the role of suffering-hero, and pretends you do nothing to maintain or improve your home and the life you've shared with her, add lists of your contributions to the notes on the refrigerator door.
