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AUTHENTICITY

                                              June 02, 2006


The trouble with "authenticity" is
that it rides on an over-simplified
conception of the individual/society               Or self/other.
problem.
                                                      (If you prefer the
To be authentic is to be "true to yourself",          jargon of a different
to "go your own way", and so on.                      group of people
                                                      concerned with
Inauthenticity is imposed from without.               avoiding the influence
                                                      of groups of people.)

Any mode of existence that has
anything at all to do with other
human beings is open to a charge    (Just following
of "inauthenticity".                 the crowd.)

So the quest for authenticity boils
down to a quest for isolationism.

The notion that it's possible and
desirable to be a pure individual.       SELF





               Authenticity is a concept
               fraught with problems.

                    Not the least of which:
                    Why didn't the Monkees suck?         Then there's the
                                                         "Authentic Bagels"
                          And what about:                issue (formerly at
                                                         2nd @ Broadway in
                          AKB48 Oakland).



Is authenticity about
to become passe?

But I'm still having trouble
breaking the irony habit.






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