Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
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The Importance of Being a Fraud
The more of a fraud you felt like the harder you tried to convey an impression or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow fraudulent person you really were. This kind of cycle that keeps building on itself he calls this like the fraudulent paradox I think. But then that's this is definitely something where awareness of the problem not only doesn't make it better but it makes it worse. Right. Before you get to the end as you were reading it neither of us knew anything about like how like what the the turn that it takes at the very end like how did you like this character what were you thinking about the story. Yeah good good good goodGood,
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