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.
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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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