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41 Post author: lsparrish 21 March 2012 02:56AM

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Comment author: Username 28 March 2012 09:56:59PM *  0 points [-]

I completely agree. My point was not that one should display these behaviors to become high status (though there is value in fake-it-till-you-make-it, going out and doing these is a quick one-way ticket to looking like a disingenuous sleaze, you would be far better off working on inner game), but rather that these do have a basis in reality.

In light of your response, I had misinterpreted your original post. I took

If you imitate that list of things in real life, you're copying a simulation of an appearance of a fiction.
as
Any imitation of this in real life is a copy of a simulation of an appearance of a fiction.

and it was that that I was addressing.