Dale Fincher: Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure
Angela
· 9 months ago
Amen and Bravo! Very inspiring and awesome post.
Dale Fincher
· 9 months ago
Thanks, Angela, for stopping by!
Philip
· 9 months ago
Transparency = virtue
I know way too many people with that assumption governing their lives. Where did this idea come from? Maybe from postmodernism's roots in existentialism? Regardless, good thoughts.
Dale Fincher
· 9 months ago
That would be an interesting masters thesis project, Philip. Definitely existentialism mixed with some philosophical naturalism... add an overdose of empathy and victimization and you have a simple concoction of life awry, compliments of the enemy below.
rachwolf
· 7 months ago
I think it comes from our modern secular mythology. Roughly: Darwinism: we are a random set of molecules with no ultimate purpose Freudianism (morphed into modern psychology): We are all victims of our environment post-modernism/hedonism: the goal is pleasure; the good is authenticity; truth is what you think it is
Result: I am a purposeless victim in a swimming world of changing truths; I need pleasure to fill the dark void; being my true self (exposing all my sin) is the best i can be; perhaps they will love me and my pain will subside.
rachwolf
· 7 months ago
Dale: Great post! As you know, people do know inside what a hero is. Our beloved stories tell us, though we call it fantasy and quickly brush away the tear.
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I know way too many people with that assumption governing their lives. Where did this idea come from? Maybe from postmodernism's roots in existentialism? Regardless, good thoughts.
Darwinism: we are a random set of molecules with no ultimate purpose
Freudianism (morphed into modern psychology): We are all victims of our environment
post-modernism/hedonism: the goal is pleasure; the good is authenticity; truth is what you think it is
Result: I am a purposeless victim in a swimming world of changing truths; I need pleasure to fill the dark void; being my true self (exposing all my sin) is the best i can be; perhaps they will love me and my pain will subside.