This Freakonomics Radio podcast illustrates what I’ve been saying for months (years!)(ok months!). We all do it, we all feel a little paranoid about it. All of us, that is, except for John Edwards, I guess.
A very notable sentiment in this production–which investigates the motives and MO’s of Kosher cooks who love bacon, Presidential candidates and Southern tech reps who lie about their church-going habits, and a law professor afraid one of his students will ask him a question that will reveal he’s just a medievalist masquerading as a legal expert–is that Faking it is an essential part of our social life. It is how we say “I want you to like me.” I think that’s sweet.
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