George Santos and the great American tradition of "self-making"
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The Admiration of Lies in Pop Culture
There's almost like an admiration or an awe that people have, even when they find out that your story is fake. I always think of a P.T. Barnum of Barnum and Bailey, the 19th century hoaxer who actually wrote a book about what he called Humbug. His whole ethos was that people want to be fooled a little bit because people love the entertainment part of it.
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