Podcasts Culture Very Bad Wizards Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 11:30 p.m.

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Our whole lives we\\u2019ve been frauds. We\\u2019re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we\\u2019ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 \\u201cpop culture\\u201d in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) \\u2013 and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I\\u2019m surprised there aren\\u2019t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they\\u2019d ramble on about \\u201cGood Old Neon\\u201d like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.

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