Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
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Authenticity
Tourist trappings: why we all love a tacky souvenir fridge magnet
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
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Swept up in the Instagramization of the 2010s, the contemporary poetry world saw an exaltation of ‘honesty’ as an aesthetic priority. Poetry not as craft, but as ‘outlet,’ with the goal not of developing ourselves and enriching our understanding of the world, but of sitting more comfortably with how we already were and what we already believed.
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