User blog comment:Sifsand/Character sheet: Sylvania Waterford/@comment-28898344-20150208180731/@comment-4867780-20150214002628

Since mankind built its survival and prosperity on the rejection of "authenticity", undoing that would simply return us to prehistoric life. Isn't it obvious ?

Education itself is the antithesis of authenticity, it is an artificial process shaping us into something we would never naturally become. Is education bad ?

The over-valuation of authenticity is the product of idealistic minds that lost sight of reality, so immersed in its absence they completely forgot what it is.

When it comes down to it, authenticity sucks. Authentically speaking we're freaking animals. These organizations and ideas are just kidding themselves.

There's no such a thing as absolute beauty. It is relative and contextual, like everything else. Taking a good basis and magnifying it is the best way to go.