Tag: Hypocrisy
The delightful art of appearing virtuous without effort. Here, I expose the charm and the contradictions of hypocrisy in all its forms.
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Day 4: The Vexation of Virtue
There is a modern ailment, and a most dreadful one it is, that one finds particularly odious: the overwhelming desire to be ‘good’. Everyone, it seems, wishes to be a moral paragon, a beacon of virtue, and a tiresome example to the rest of humanity. They parade their tedious kindnesses and their even more tedious…
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Day 2: The Peril of a Good Example
One is constantly told to follow a good example. It is a piece of advice so utterly devoid of originality that one immediately suspects its virtue. The world, it seems, is a vast, uninspired gallery of people trying to be like someone else. They mimic a hero, a philanthropist, or, most tragically, a person of…