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Our love of authenticity rises as all the world became a stage
We live in a culture of watchers and appearers, of watchers and approvers , a culture where it feels distinctively hard to be a real human being. It’s like some sort of Orwellian nightmare, but worse, since we are being watched, but we have also employed ourselves as the watchers, as big brother, looking in at a projected image of everyone’s life,... See more
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
What is authenticity? Of course there’s no such thing, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from believing in it. Nearly 80 years of anthropology research on authenticity-seeking behavior reveal authenticity to be one of the stickiest modern superstitions. The bulk of the early research is about tourism, an activity frequently motivated by a search for... See more
subpixel space • After Authenticity
The idea of being a poser, of being driven to do things because it’ll look good and for the satisfaction of knowing someone thinks it looks good, not for the satisfaction of actually doing the thing. Could it be this is more prevalent today, because more eyes are on us all the time with the internet? Because we watch so much TV, we start thinking
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