How a 30-Year-Old Mastermind Fooled an Entire High School Into Thinking He Was a Teen—And What It Means for Trust in the Digital Age
It was this masterful performance. Everybody was kind of transfixed — it was weird and trippy and a bit brainwash-y to be in the room with him doing that for a day and a half.
In America, we’re raised to believe that we can reinvent ourselves — that we can always change our fortune, change our lives. Is that a particularly Scottish trait as well? I wondered how much of that fed into Brandon’s thought process while trying to pull off this hoax in order to become a doctor.
Scotland has a thing — I think a lot of countries have, I certainly know Australia does, [they call it] the “tall poppy syndrome,” where if somebody gets [too full of themselves], then we’re quite happy to cut them down. And certainly Brandon feels that certain people have [made] it their business to stop him achieving what he wants to achieve. And so what he hopes that he pulls off is purely his method of thwarting those efforts to stop him achieving his dreams.
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