Last week I realized that today’s rapid cultural evolution, mediated greatly by youth movements, seems encouraged by the common modern norm favoring “authenticity”.
You should not define ‘sincerity’ in terms of *coming from within*, especially when you interpret “within” as applying only to motivation which was unaffected by one’s adoption of a culture. Your definition makes “sincerity” obviously impossible.
Hm. I think Charles Taylor would agree. From what I remember of reading it a 3 years ago, the whole point is to rescue a debased 'you do you' shallow authenticity.
And we're heavily mimetic, Girard's theories are in many ways obviously highly predictive. But there is obviously non trivial mutation or progression amongst culture. This capacity to wrestle with ideas and come out with truth and growth doesn't seem to reduce to internalised conformity performed gracefully.
I wrote this, pretty much as a response/corrective to Taylor and Trilling https://www.amazon.ca/Authenticity-Hoax-Lost-Finding-Ourselves/dp/006125133X
Nice!
You should not define ‘sincerity’ in terms of *coming from within*, especially when you interpret “within” as applying only to motivation which was unaffected by one’s adoption of a culture. Your definition makes “sincerity” obviously impossible.
Hm. I think Charles Taylor would agree. From what I remember of reading it a 3 years ago, the whole point is to rescue a debased 'you do you' shallow authenticity.
And we're heavily mimetic, Girard's theories are in many ways obviously highly predictive. But there is obviously non trivial mutation or progression amongst culture. This capacity to wrestle with ideas and come out with truth and growth doesn't seem to reduce to internalised conformity performed gracefully.
> But seeing you trying to please and conform looks quite to different to observers than your seeming to just do stuff from within
Quite what?
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