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577 - Moby and Lindsay (hosts of Moby Pod)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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The Existential Subtext of Fame

I mean, to state the obvious we live in a culture that glorifies fame. People are always looking for some sort of existential out something that protects them from the human experience. It's always that like looking for something that will somehow purport to give them meaning and somehow exempt them from the ravages of the human condition. And so when I discovered fame or when fame discovered me, I embraced it way more enthusiastically than I should admit tolike I loved fame. But then I found myself getting incredibly depressed and being incredibly anxious. You know, the attention, the validation. For a while as I was becoming less famous I tried to hold on to like sort of desk. The second memoir

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