found this fascinating - not bc of the subjects behaviour being unusual (though it is) but bc of how much of it is an exaggerated version of the kind of low-level dishonesty that's normalised in lots of institutions & cultures, particularly "elite" ones https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/a-suspense-novelists-trail-of-deceptions/amp?fbclid=IwAR3pElMgwrMDNln6b9vkiFMp-u5lamHLLfz8MFIAb7Jrk1XXiZ2Uroh6qTA&__twitter_impression=true …
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In order to be successful in a lot of professional/academic fields it's increasingly expected you have a fungible personality and/or a compelling personal narrative (this is true to a certain extent in some social/cultural spheres); this involves an implicit degree of dishonesty
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Aside from negative pyschological effects on those engaged with it (because its actually v rare to be a genius/have a dramatic but inspiring personal history)its a system that will in the end privilege those who game it best,&that means warped characters like the articles subject
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i basically never stop wandering around with a lantern looking for a way to reward virtue that won't inevitably reward sociopathically gaming the appearance of virtue better than it could possibly reward virtue
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