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Re: Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure

rachwolf — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:54 -0000

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.

Re: Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure

rachwolf — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:23:55 -0000

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.

Re: Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure

Dale Fincher — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:02:20 -0000

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.

Re: Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure

Philip — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:16:08 -0000

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.

Re: Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure

Dale Fincher — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:51:43 -0000

Thanks, Angela, for stopping by!

Re: Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure

Angela — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:46:21 -0000

Amen and Bravo! Very inspiring and awesome post.