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Anyone else here NEVER want to be a public figure? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I ask cuz I was chatting with someone today about a creative project I'm working on, and said if I ever were to publish it I'd want to do so under a pseudo-name because if it did really well I wouldn't want to become famous, the idea of being famous at all makes me anxious.

They felt this was weird of them. Personally I think this can't be an uncommon sentiment, I mean plenty of authors out there despise public life, so I think it's a pretty common feeling.

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Without doxxing myself, I went to college for a career that would dramatically increase my chances of being a public figure. One of the main reasons ended up not doing that for a living is that when I got near the end of college and saw just what kind of life the people who do this job live, I realized I absolutely never want that. It sounded so constricting.

Glad I got the degree anyway it was super fun, but...yeah. The liklihood of me being a public figure in literally any capacity stopped me from doing the career I wanted to do. So I totally understand, I also would never want to be famous at all.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This may sound weird but I think it's also something that hold me back from organizing, most RadLeft groups in the US are so fucking small, being involved in them almost kinda comes with a degree of public facing. I wish the US had a communist party big enough I could just be some quiet pencil pusher in the lower ranks, like let me manage membership files for the Harrisburg PA branch or something where nobody will know my name!

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

I don't disagree. I certainly do some organizing but mostly for well established things, and this is a good reason why. I don't have the kind of social battery to pick up something like this and be THE FACE for it. I have people in my life who do that instead and when they're in a spot with a thing that hands are needed that's when I engage, but...yeah. It's tough.