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Originally Posted by El Pancake before he deleted it
No, I'm saying that unadulterated appreciation of yourself is simply unacceptable nowadays. Which can be good in some cases but it shouldn't be universally panned, which it basically is.
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I don't know. I think pretentiousness rose with the Internet. Yuppies were looked down on back in the day. Now hipsterism is at a high because of pretentiousness.
But maybe that's different than the self-confidence you are discussing. It's a different type of pretense.