There is no good word for this, but it’s the opposite of paternalism, where you pretend that obvious naifs desperately looking for mentors are competent adults, flatter their adulthood conceits, and tacitly encourage their natural tendencies that lead to postures useful to you.
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those are just honest biographies
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Kids, Don’t Try This At Home. damn, did I just out myself as an Old?
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Liar’s Poker was exactly that. And people still walk up to Michael Lewis and gush about how that book inspired them to work on Wall Street.
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The hard part of course is that these things are also largely invisible to the people who lived the actual life as well.
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