Wednesday, April 13, 2011

in class- something instead of nothing

1) Klosterman says that sometimes when he is being interviewed he does not answer the questions truthfully and he cannot explain why. He said that maybe it was because he has no compulsion to do right when people interview him even if the person who suffers from it is himself. 2)Klosterman's overarching question was why do people talk to eachother, or even bother responding to questions that people ask. 3)He answers it by explaining that if the person interviewing someone has an interesting question, it is hard for people to resist answering it. If the person asking the questions acts like they care about the response the person is going to give, then that person is more likely to give a response and will talk more about themself. 4)After reading Klosterman talk about how trustworthy the answers of the interviewee are and how even Klosterman himself lies sometimes during an interview, it seems that you want to trust the interviewee's answer's are the truth but half the time they may be lieing. We are not necessarily the best informants of ourselves because Klosterman talks about how some people may subconsiously lie to make themselves appear in a different way or in the way they want to be themself. 5) People would not necessarily avoid interviews at all times because if the persons feels that the question they are asked they have an interesting response to they will be more likely to elaborate and talk about themselves. People like talking about themselves especially if someone seems like they care, even if they are just acting like they are interested even though they may not. 5)

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  1. >>We are not necessarily the best informants of ourselves because Klosterman talks about how some people may subconsiously lie to make themselves appear in a different way or in the way they want to be themself.<<

    Yes - I think this sort of self-deception is a theme of the reading.

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