You're Not Bad, You're Just Influenced That Way

My friends and I all happily logged into our email addresses from our crappy little apartments, checking in after hours from the used sofas where we watched The Hills and Rock of Love, using the laptops we’d bought in college. We competed to be the first to arrive at the office and the last to leave, marking our productivity by the time spent in th

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Clearly the cultural pressure to achieve a unique self is old, strong, and not unique to hipsters, so why did the authenticity drive spin out of control after CE 2000? One possible reason is that the hundreds of studies on authenticity in tourism and subcultures have also been read and in many cases sponsored by business thinkers who directly influ... See more