Why is authenticity so hard to find these days?

What do you mean?

Industrialisation

Only hipsters care about authenticity and look where that gets them.

>>3132846
Why is nobody authentic anymore?

>>3132849
Explain
>>3132853
Hipsters are some of the least authentic people though

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genuinely insane people are pretty authentic

There is a lot of authenticity, you just don't see it.

Imagine a fisherman who spends days out at sea at a time and rarely comes home to his wife and sick son, he does this for years, years run into a decade, the fishing industry is struggling and his life is going nowhere and he can't go anywhere else because it would be at the expense with his family, he wonders where all the time has gone. However he develops a cameraderie with his fellow fishermen, they have their own troubles and share them, the community helps his son and he gives back when one of his mates struggles with alcoholism or a divorce. He decides to get an anchor tattoo signifying he is part of this circle of good people he has found in life. Very deep and meaningful. Many such cases.

>>3132871
>dude there's tons of authenticity just imagine it lmao

Typical drumpfkin

>Please refer to the Question Concerning Technology

>>3132873
Ah, this is just a bait thread.

& Humanities strikes again.

Nobody is """"authentic"""" in a social context.

Every human being adopts different personas depending on their role. If you're a father and somebody's boss, you will behave differently around your son than your employee. If you're middle management, you'll behave differently around YOUR boss than you will around YOUR employee. Personality is malleable, and it's no less """"""""authentic""""""""" to behave differently around different people, you would not be behaving like a human being if you didn't. You'd be wasting humanity's unique social intelligence if you acted identically in every context, and what more, you'd actively need to TRY to do it, it would be less authentic than if you adapted behavior to circumstance.

If this isn't a shitpost thread, define what is "authentic" in a human context without using the word "authentic" in the definition. And don't just open a fucking thesaurus either. And explain how this existed more before "these days".

>>3132843
corporate interest meticulously sniff out authentic experiences and package them to sell to tourists.

It's easy to prove people wrong with smartphones and the internet.