Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Rise of Sincerity
I think sincerity has come back a bit. And in some ways, it's better to be cynical and and sincere than to be just a sarcastic kind of the wire is cynical with but also sincere. I can imagine John writing a TV shot. Oh, God. He likes there is a phrase must revolve around a single axis. A couple paragraphs down he says, make no mistake, irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is that an iron is impossible to pin down all ironies of variation on a sort of existential poker face.
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