Are there any writers that deal with the lack of alignment between beliefs and actions and whether they are sincere beliefs if you don't act on them.
For example: I believe that I should, say, be sincerely loving and attentive when interacting with people but usually I am seemingly uncontrollably disinterested and mean spirited.
This seems like it might be what Kierkegaard talks about when dealing with subjective truth but maybe I'm off.
Any writers/books that deal with this ideas and how to stop/mitigate this interminable dissonance
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Paul talks about it in Romans 7.
>>8017180
that was terrible
American Pyscho by Bret Easton Ellis covers social satire well if that is what you mean
>>8017209
That is pretty evidently not what he means at all.
That being said op I can't think of anything that really tackles it. The concept does come up in Under the Volcano in a couple of ways -- the Consul's brother constantly wrestles with the feeling of being a hypocrite because he desires a sort of adventurous, romanticized life but can't stop acting like a pampered rich dude. You could argue that the Consul himself also suffers from it when he constantly acknowledges his need to improve his life but simultaneously sabotages himself, though that's a bit shakier. The novel doesn't really focus heavily on what you're looking for though, op. Just the only example I could think of.
>>8017257
ty, sounds relevant
