Authenticity

What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?

Make stuff only you can make. Stuff that makes you sigh in resignation after waiting for someone else to make happen so you can enjoy it, and realizing that’s never going to happen so you have to get off the couch and do it yourself

Carmen • Tweet

sari

Someone who is secure is also consistent: they’re the same person in front of everyone because they’re comfortable being authentic. They don’t have to change masks between people because they don’t feel the need to impress others by pretending to be someone they’re not.

Sherry x.com

andrea

The Disbeliever's Guide to Authenticity

Toby Shorin • 1 highlight

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Cover of The Disbeliever's Guide to Authenticity

Eli Allan

phoebe

“[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tune…which is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished things that we all actually like in the right context.

The reason we like the Velvet Underground is not for their gloss. It's for their roughness. For the feeling we... See more

aandrea

Brian Eno on why we’re drawn to the new and authentic

I heard this quote from the writer Harold Brodkey who said, “I don’t understand privacy.” I’ve always understood privacy very well, but it’s like—what’s the point of taking your secrets to the grave, or even your banalities? We have this chance to let ourselves be known to other people, to fill out the web of humanity that we’ve been spreading for

alex

Tourist trappings: why we all love a tacky souvenir fridge magnet

Amelia Tait theguardian.com

Keely Adler

instead of asking: how can i be more like them? ask: how can i be more like me? how many versions of me do i occupy? where do they live? how do they grow? what will they bloom into? what rituals do they practice? how do they... See more

alex