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The movie that we watched at the beginning of class preserved reality, as early movies did. It kept the idea that you couldn’t be two people at once, and you couldn’t be in two places at once. We also discussed how modern people have a divided sense of self. I thought of this with my old retail job at the Baby Gap. There was the self that agreed to do the job, because I needed the money, and the self that was actually doing the job of folding small baby clothes for minimum wage. We briefly discussed the public and private self, and I had a hard time understanding what divides the public from the private. What about us makes this division?

 

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