1. "I am completely comfortable with having voted for Trump. It was my first time because of the apocalypse that was represented by the blue ticket. And so I just don't think there was any rational choice. We had an absolute emergency on our hands and this simple ability to vote for
something that was in some way authentic made it the only game in town.... You know... President Biden was not the president in the meaningful sense.... And then at the point that that became implausible, to swap in an empty shirt is such a dire commentary on the state of the Republic" — said Bret Weinstein, in
video at X.
2. "The beauty standards themselves are inauthentic — that is, unnatural and impossible to attain without surgical or technological intervention — but the open discussion around how to achieve them has been praised as
a form of authenticity by fans, many of whom felt they had previously been gaslit by celebrities claiming their perfect forms were the result of diet and exercise.... Despite an expressed desire to be true to themselves, members of [Generation Z] have said they care less and less about authenticity from influencers — perhaps because the efforts to appear relatable have fallen flat" — from
"An Era of Authenticity (or Something Like It)/Celebrities are being praised for openly discussing plastic surgery and Photoshop. Are they raging against a machine they created?" (NYT).
4. "To say I know how our environment affects people? I have no idea. I really don't. And I don't want to know. I don't want it evaluated. I just want to keep trying to make the environment healthy and good and better — and
authentic" — said Pat Murphy, manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, quoted in
"MLB-leading Brewers cap best 60-game stretch in club history" (MLB.com).
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Beware when Pols and MSM reporters start using the word "authentic". Anyway, weinstein's comment made no sense to me. Biden wasn't on the ballot. So, it didn't matter whether Biden was the "real POTUS" or not. Harris was going to be "the real POTUS" in Jan 2025.
Comment 2, simply shows the difference between liberal/leftists and conservatives. When Leftists don't like something, they change society, they change the rules, they change "The standards". When conservatives don't like something they just complain, or congratulate themselves on being "reasonable" and "Good Losers"
The idea that women are using every means neccessary to make themselves more beautiful (or to keep their beauty) because of "society standards" is ridiculous. Are women going to give up lipstick and makeup? Stop geting their hair styled? Stop trying to lose weight to get into that swimsuit?
Maybe if every woman did. But that's not going to happen. And they're not going to stop getting boob jobs and nose jobs. I had a co-worker who at 45 happily married with two kids who got a "chin reduction". She wasn't doing it for anyone but herself.
People should be glad all this surgery exists so they can look better.
Authenticity is everything. If you can fake that, you're set.
I liked the Brewers as a kid in the 70s and 80s. Robin Yount and Paul Molitor...yay! 1982 world series loss to the Cardinals was tough. Liked Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, also. Yount and Molitor seeemed "authentic". Storman Gorman Thomas seemed "authentic". Richie on Happy Days was me, as I was a tall skinny dork. The Fonz was the tough, cool guy you wanted as a close friend.
Enjoyed, from 2018, The Killers singing Laverne and Shirley theme song at a Milwaukee concert. Nice. Authentic.Check it out on YouTube.
DJT loved Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley.
Don't get too geeked out by the Brewers mid-season success. I predict they will flame out in the playoffs to San Diego or the hated Dodgers.
RCOCEAN, pretty sure "swap in an empty shirt" was a reference to Harris as a continuation of Biden's being a mere figurehead.
Mamdani is a brilliant example of the gag, "If you can fake authenticity, you've got it made". It's not often you see a rising star being so expertly groomed - he glistens from the daily tongue baths he's getting from the adoring media, and so far has been completely shielded from any of the scrutiny politicians are normally given. How did he get so rich, this socialist that claims he's going to make life affordable for the little people? Let's start with his net worth ! What is his actual record as a legislator? What are his accomplishments, besides the soothing platitudes? Who is providing the funds for his astro-turfed crowds, his enthusiastic followers, his campaigns?
I suspect we are seeing the newest iteration of the George Soros 'Open Society' efforts and similar ones, the dark money's latest stealth methodologies at work.
Yes, authenticity is everything, but that's a problem when it's clear that someone is authentically shitty. Well, like Mamdani, who's got some buzz now among geriatric Democrats because he's an electric piece of shit.
"Authenticity is everything. If you can fake that, you're set."
That's on the mark!
Trump, love him or hate him, is about as authentic as a politician can get. The Dems need an authentic figurehead and don't have one, so they need to change the meaning of the word so they can fight fire with fake fire. SOP for the Democrats.
People are drawn to "what you see is what you get." They don't like being jerked around, even when it's for something that will ultimately benefit them. "The devil you know" is a related idea.
Mamdani seems to have really nailed down faking authenticity, to the point where his opponents are running out of time to negotiate a truce so the "not Mamdani" voters have someone to unite around.
Authenticity means lying about having the mental acuity of a kumquat, getting an entire profession to lie about you having the mental acuity of a kumquat, and your friends deciding in a smoke-filled room to play 3-card Monty with the electorate by replacing a kumquat with a differently colored female kumquat.
That's the definition of A-U-T-H-E-N-T-I-C-I-T-Y.
NYT. Endeavoring as usual to make authenticity authentically meaningless.
CJinPA said, "Authenticity is everything. If you can fake that, you're set."
Authenticity is nothing, marketing is everything. Make it till you fake it!
So, are these examples of the rationalization stage of dealing with grief?
Adorno The Jargon of Authenticity
Most honored Mr. President, ministers, secretaries of state, mayors, advisors, administrators, and assistants, highly esteemed men and women of our cultural life, representitives of science, of industry, and of the self-employed middle-class, honored public of this festive gathering, ladies and gentlemen!
It is not by chance that we are gathered here today for the purpose of celebrating this day. In a time like ours, in which the true human values have more than ever to be our innermost concern, a statement is expected from us. I do not wish to present you with a patented solution, but I would merely like to bring up for discussion a series of hot potatoes which do after all face us. For we do not need ready-made opinions, which anyway do not touch us deeply, but what we need is rather the genuine dialogue which moves us in our humanity. What brought us together here is our knowledge of the power of encounter in the forming of the intrahuman sphere. The things which matter are settled in this intrahuman sphere. I do not need to tell you what I mean by this. You will all understand me, for in a particular and extraordinary sense you all have to do with people.
In a time such as ours - I have mentioned it already - in which the perspective of things has everywhere begun to waver, everything depends more than ever on the individual who knows of the essence of things, of things as such, of things in their authenticity. We need openhearted people who are capable of this. Who are these people? - you will ask me - and I will answer you: You are they! By being gathered here you have proven more thoroughly than by words that you are prepared to put emphasis on your concern. That is what I would like to thank you for. But I would also like to thank you for energetically opposing, by your commitment to this good cause, the flood of materialism which threatens to drown everything around us. To say it in a nutshell from the start: you have come here to be given directions; you have come to listen. From this encounter, on an intrahuman level, you expect a contribution to the reestablishment of the interhuman climate. You expect a restoration of that homey warmth which seems to be lacking, in our modern industrial society, to such a terrifying degree ...
But what does this mean for our concrete situation here and now? To pronounce the the question means to pose it. But in fact it means much more than that. It means that we expose ourselves to it, that we surrender to it. That we must not forget. But in the rush and busy work of the day, modern man forgets it all too easily. But you who belong to the silent majority, you know of it. For our problems stem from a region which it is our vocation to preserve. The wholesome perplexity which comes from this situation opens perspectives which we should not simply block out by turning away in boredom. It is important to think with the heart and to tune in the human antenna to the same wave length. Today no one knows better than man that which is of importance in the end.
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``Stenciled Speech for Festive Occasions''
Christian Schutze ``Gestanzte Festansprache,'' in Stuttgarter Zeitung, Dec 2, 1962; quoted by Theodor Adorno _The Jargon of Authenticity_ p.89-91
"I'm trying to make this shit sound fuckin' authenticious. You got it all fucked up."
Authen- what?"
What's-a matter you? Why you look so blue?
What-a you t'ink you do?
Why you look-a so sad? Kansas it's-a not-a so bad.
It's-a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddap-a you face!
Just win the ballgames, Skippy.
Interesting post re: authenticity. I know a Creigton alum who lives on a ranch near Whitman, Nebraska. Her name is Hannah Conneally. Her family sells bulls and, hence, is in the genetics business and has been for over 40 years. Her brother played basketball for Creighton with Doug McDermott, POY. Hannah and Gabe both scored 40 on the ACT attending the only high school in the county.
She is an influencer on FB. She did a post the other day about some Wrangler jeans she bought at a thrift shop in Mullen. I was just in Mullen the other day. Mullen is the only town in Hooker County; the least populated county in the entire state.
In her FB reel, she said she wore the jeans to pour concrete the other day and was now wearing them for a night out on the town. She stood up on the bathtub to show them off.
Hannah is an authentic Sandhills rancher. Also, a knockout. Really exceptionally beautiful. Beautiful like the Nebraska Sandhills which *every* member of the Althouse community should visit.
Per my urging, she's contacted Wrangler jeans. If this company doesn't hire her, they're idiots.
Watch for Hannah in a Wrangler commercial.
"Celebrities are being praised for openly discussing plastic surgery and Photoshop."
Buccal fat's good girls!
Heroin chic is dead now
Say yes to dimples!
- Trump, Haiku Master
Mamdingle is electric, alright. Like an electric eel, that vile, Islamophile with the Stimpy smile.
tha very much an inigo montoya phrase 'those words you are using' mamdani is a rich spoiled punk, who has never done any work except community organizing, rabblerousing, for the worst, as yeats would say,
the adorno quote is instructive, as the frankfurt school tried like gramsci to fundamentally transform the nation, in the 20s, but it didn't take,
I, for one, enjoy the authenticity of the synthetically derived news.
Holden Caulfield spends a delightful couple of days in New York looking for authenticity.
its also full of bafflegrab 'sound and fury signifying nothing'
if new yorkers after seeing persons set ablaze not only in the subways like something out of a carpenter film, as well as in times square, having armies of rats swarm over then, vote for bombdaddy, well then nuke the city like in dark knight rises,
The alternative question is, why is everything so phony today?
" ... to swap in an empty shirt is such a dire commentary on the state of the Republic."
He meant to say skirt. She was an empty skirt.
Anyway, doesn't say anything about the Republic.
Says a LOT about Democrats.
The over-weight democratic white female left do not want moderation.
they are insane and they want more insanity.
Narciso, Obama established "community organizer" as a career path to the White House.
Authenticity is the last thing most people want. They want to be comforted by the fantasies of children. Apocryphal stories that soothe the fearful shielding them from the harsh realities of the violent jungle of death and dismemberment. Don Draper said it well: "Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of the road that screams with reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay."
The most authentic aspect of American culture is unbridled consumerism. Every thing else is rationalization.
the kabuki is getting shopwarn, with twitter under their controlas well as other parts of the apparat, they could pull it off now not so much,
the authentic labour party went to renationalization in the 80s, with Foot and Benn, but the Iron Lady held them off, they found a shiny new vessel in Tony Blair, who pretended to be a moderate, in the Gaitskell mold
Sasha Stone has a post on her Substack that seems on point:
Because [Democrats] can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality, they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it. Nothing they do now can fix the problem because the problem is everything - it’s the empire. Americans rightly chose the less crazy side in 2024. They chose the real America, not America online.
[My emphasis]
The real America. The authentic one.
Authentic and transparent are not the same thing.
Celebrities and social media influencers are being transparent about plastic surgery and photoshop, but not authentic.
Pat Murphy of the Brewers is being transparent about not knowing what's working.
more a delian league set up, with ungrateful dependents,
Lawnerd: because since the advent of "civilization", phony is a superpower. The fall of Man is an allegory of the transition from Hunter Gatherer tribal life in the authentic wild to fixed agriculture, specialization, laws, power and control. It's right in Genesis 3:
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
Loss of authenticity replaced by guilt and shame causing humanity to cover up the true authentic self
If you can fake authenticity, you have it made.
https://substack.com/@gregcollard/note/c-142390970
there's nothing authentic in the Times or the Bezos Post or the Journal, except embrace of evil
they lie more often than they tell the truth, the last op ed occassionally gets to the fact, but accepts many lies along the way
Adorno was one of the great bores of the 20th C. Good on him for noticing the other guy's writing, though.
God didn't need for Man to know of Sin of Shame, this was the perfect world he had created, why is the Bible driven from the public square, because one has to accept that broken world is all there is, and one pursues their tasks by it's rules,
ngram shows the previous peak in American English for "authentic" as being in 1812. In British English, that era still has the record high for most usage.
You can be authentically dull. You can be "electric." Maybe authentically "electric," maybe artificially "electric." The world is full of people who are authentically dull, not having what it takes even to be phony. Then there are the people who are authentically fake, who's fakeness is so ingrained that it's impossible to shake off.
"New York has a brand. Kansas doesn't have a brand." - Eric Adams
Was he right about that? What would it take for Kansas to have a "brand"? And why is Adams running fourth, behind even Sliwa (though it may be within the margin of error)?
kansas is where superman and ike came from, in no particular order, it is the heartland, the breadbasket of America,
"I predict they will flame out in the playoffs to San Diego or the hated Dodgers."
You are saying playoffs because they have already played all their games against the Dodgers for the season. And they WON every single one.
https://www.mlb.com/news/brewers-sweep-dodgers-for-10th-straight-win
"He meant to say skirt. She was an empty skirt."
No, that would draw attention to her lower body. Too sexist.
But I think he should have said "Empty blouse." That would have been funny.
He could have just said "Empty suit," the usual expression. She did wear suits. Why switch to shirts? That's more menswear-y than suit.
empty suit
"Did not King Toomtabard, or, in other words, John Baliol, reign long over Scotland; the man John Baliol being quite gone, and only the 'Toom Tabard' (Empty Gown) remaining? What still dignity dwells in a suit of Cast Clothes! How meekly it bears its honors! No haughty looks, no scornful gesture: silent and serene, it fronts the world; neither demanding worship, nor afraid to miss it. The Hat still carries the physiognomy of its Head: but the vanity and the stupidity, and goose-speech which was the sign of these two, are gone. The Coat-arm is stretched out, but not to strike; the Breeches, in modest simplicity, depend at ease, and now at last have a graceful flow; the Waistcoat hides no evil passion, no riotous desire; hunger or thirst now dwells not in it. Thus all is purged from the grossness of sense, from the carking cares and foul vices of the World; and rides there, on its Clothes-horse; as, on a Pegasus, might some skyey Messenger, or purified Apparition, visiting our low Earth.
Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
Pat Murphy has earned a tag
The media is too busy covering for the NY Commie than to spend time researching and publishing his actual record and background. Also, I thought the author meant "eclectic", not "electric" but I suppose I was mistaken
Your authentic selfie is simulated, a mode of congruence, a "burden"-free existence, a parade of hate.
Howard at 902- Liked your post.
Any reference to Mad Men peaks my interest. Don had some great pitches (The Carousel).
Consumerism was a big element of The Great Gatsny. The Roaring Twenties had many new products.
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