Dan Fox

“But this fact should not blind us to another one: that almost anyone can learn a script well enough to give a charitable audience some sense of realness in what is being contrived before them. And it seems this is so because ordinary social intercourse is itself put together as a scene is put together, by the exchange of dramatically inflated actions, counteractions, and terminating replies… All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify.”
― Dan Fox, Pretentiousness: Why It Matters

“Deviance, like pretentiousness, is in the eye of the beholder, in the gap between one individual’s baseline of acceptable behaviour and the actions of another.”
― Dan Fox, Pretentiousness: Why It Matters