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If you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you've despaired of being loved for who you really are. And if you succeed in manipulating other people into liking you, it will be hard not to feel, at …

the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne

antagonize the soporific fog of solipsism

De la Durantaye articulates Wallace's vision as follows: "freedom is not about having as few fetters as possible; it is about leading an examined life. Freedom is about being a good person, choosing to be a good person, every day."