aloha nico.

    30 Jun 2009

    “

    This idea of authenticity is tiring. The need to prove the excellency of ones life choices, music taste, or neighborhood is a nauseating rhetoric of life in the city, an especially annoying habit of the young and the alternative.

    […]

    The back and forth - the smug sense of self-worth derived from things acquired and places appropriated - is a competition that needs to end. It appears to stand for something to keep one occupied, to give meaning to an existence without a clear definition.

    ”
    —

    BRITTICISMS.: On youth and authenticity

    You should really read the whole thing, because Britt nails it, as usual.

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