The confidence game creates a moment of great reality and great comfort. The confidence game is not unlike the consumer goods advertisement or the provocative art or the anger in a class war: it creates a heightened momentary reality that is more intense than the ordinary reality of civil society.
The trouble is that the heightening cannot be sustained. The confidence game is the experiential version of addiction, of Ponzi schemes, of extraction, of the entire realm of the unsustainable.
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