The Struggle to Be Interesting is Real
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hint: it's not about your pants
0:00 -6:56 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. “I’m a very interesting person,” he blurted out during a pause in the screening interview for my 2022 Life History research. Well, alrighty then. I guess he had had an epiphany? Look, it’s easy to classify this older white male as just plain arrogant and self-important. One out of two females who read this paragraph will roll her eyes. Bite your tongue, reader. Let’s call him Dave. Dave is really just the tip of a cultural phenomenon the late sociologist Robert Bellah once termed “expressive individualism.” Yes,…
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