>>762265The thing is, you can make money as a musician, and I did master the guitar among other things, and it can be good to read books. It gives you something to talk about which can help you network with the right people, or just help you understand the world. It's like self educating yourself. I tried explaining that to my mother, but she's the most irrational person I have ever met. The other people, I don't even know, they never listened to me either. I had people saying I didn't do anything growing up all the time, like a lot of friends and such. I see it sort of as a lower class thing to do almost. But it sort of reminds me of how Donald Trumps dad would berate his brother for "driving a bus with wings" (being a air pilot for a living) he probably thought that he didn't "do anything" either. But at least he was intelligible about to it an extent.
Yeah maybe it's being the boot that keeps people in service of you, I don't really know, I just don't understand how I was in school full time or working full time and people still said I didn't do anything.
I have developed other theories on it. It is like a form of slavery for sure, but it's hard to describe, some people are incapable of comprehending any form of individuality and the like, and they almost want you walk around, dance, and jig-around. Like you have to be in literal sync with everyone else, how you talk move, and behave like to the beat of a drum the same as everyone else, or it fails to compute for them.
But I don't know it was definitely a form of conformity either way. That's why I don't think America is actually all that bad. I don't live in America currently, but my experiences with Americans is that they were able to see me as an individual more easily compared to most other people.