The questions about image and perspective have always come up for human beings. Before the fig leaves in the Garden of Eden, humans may have been just humans all over the planet not seperating thoughts of beingness into categories (data and consumables) but the Biblical God made great effort to interject a storyline/reality that created God and humans as different entities.
Flash forward more than 2000 earth years and see a person pull a car into a parking lot of a grocery store. There are people sleeping, standing, milling about. Another person squats, poops into a cup, and eats the poop. 2024, Knoxville.
There are times when perspective, image, and reality all mush into the same hard-to-define occupation of the same space. And there are a lot of diverse people pre-/problem-solving how to achieve a transparently "good" image.
In many group discussions people have success with opening the talks to all the perspectives involved, and work on image from there.
"THAT'S ALL YOU CARE ABOUT, YOUR DAMN IMAGE!!!!" A teenager in the 1990's yell-screamed from behind a wall of advocates. An entire parking lot had been under curfew and the hardcore "winos" slurred be okay, stick together. A line of people going to work looked at their feet and the sky and the bus drivers carefully exchanging seats. A woman started crying. A man louder-than-mumbled that he did care, work had to, has to, has to come first, and someone else straightened a heavy backpack on shoulder and said, "She'll understand someday."
"Way they got us makes me sick."
"Not sure that's what's making you sick honey."
"I CARE," said a woman with her long curly hair shoved up under a knitcap as she pulled a fridge-magnet-notebook and pen out of her pocket. "Write down phone numbers of someone to call." She stood in front of the red-faced, hoarse-voiced teenage girl and held her eyes long enough to say again, "I care."
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