Tag: Authenticty
In this space, I, Oscar Wilde, delight in exposing the world’s hypocrisies and the vain pursuit of authenticity.
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Day 6: The Elegance of the Superficial
One is constantly besieged by the tyranny of those who claim to seek ‘depth’. They speak in hushed, reverent tones of profound truths, of hidden meanings, and of the soul’s innermost complexities. They mistake the difficult for the interesting and the obscure for the beautiful. It is an utterly tedious contemporary malady. I confess, I…
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Day 1: The Tyranny of the Authentic
It is a curious and utterly tedious modern malady, this obsession with ‘authenticity.’ One finds it everywhere, like a particularly common cold—a rather unseemly affliction that has infected our society’s most sacred pursuits. This insistence upon raw truth over refined artifice has led to a great and lamentable decline. The artist, for instance, is no…