Also during reading anything remotely esoteric, I’m always plotting up ways in my mind to bring that content up in normal conversations with my friends so that I can signal to them how intelligent and eccentric and cool I am. You measly people whose information source is random youtube shorts and reels are no match to me, the great me who just read a critic of Adam smiths views and now subscribes to the theories of Friedrich list.
I am always giving a Patrick bateman’s dinner speech in my head.