/lit/ - Literature

>>18847999
start with the greeks

>>18847999
you are always authentic

>>18847999
Probably not by asking anonymous strangers online how to do so.

By just being yourself bro

>>18848146
fuck off with the classics, create your own canon.

>>18847999
Don't try to be authentic. Thats modernist woo woo bullshit that presupposes an ennui and misery which isn't actually inherent, but is instead a product of certain conditions.

>>18848198
based
existentialism is bunk
you're not your personality

You have to get lost for a while, away from "it all" then when you come back (to your loneliness) 5, 10, 20 years later you will find it much more bearable because you will wrap your memories into meanings and it becomes easy to follow the long unbroken thread of the human experience when it relates to you

>>18847999
If you want to be authentic, you must first know who you are.

Do you know who you are?

>>18847999
its not possible where technology exists.

>>18847999
A meaningless buzzword.

>>18847999
Authenticity is a transcendental unreachable goal. It was always a cringe concept.

Just lift your Dasein bro

>>18847999
>How does one become authentic?

No 4chan, no smart phone, commit yourself to at least 3 hours outside every day. See what becomes of you after a week.

Go out into the woods

Engage with the world directly. Go out into nature. Take walks around your town and spend time just exploring it while avoiding using your smartphone. Take that time to reflect and think deeper about what it is that you want in life, where you are, and who you are. Let things fall into place.

>>18847999
There is no authentic self. Even if there were one, you wouldn't want to give it full expression, because we all have an impulse toward destructive behavior. See Ellul's A Critique of the New Commonplaces.

>>18847999
It's just not caring about it.

>>18847999
Think about this, as longer you life in an society as more memes get stuck in your head, you never ever get authentic you only get normed.

AUTHENTICITY HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SYNTHENTICITY
ORGANISMS HAVE BEEN REPLACED BEFORE THE REPLACEMENT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WE ARE DEAD
IT HAS ALL BEEN CONSUMED BY TECHNOLOGY
WE ARE CONSUMED BY TECHNOLOGY
WE ARE BEING REPLACED IN THE SNEEDSCAPE BY TECHNOLOGY
WE NO LONGER EXIST BECUZ OF TECHNOLOGY

>>18848146
Never stop on your holy crusade.

>>18848638
Best way.

>>18850316
Exact opposite of this. *their* holy crusade robs you of your self

>>18848228
Of course you're your personality - ever meet a girl that raves about how accurate the Myers-Briggs is? Your response to such a person is rote, embrace the fatalism.

>>18847999
Daily meditation

>>18847999
look man authenticity is a meaningless purely poetic concept, you need to think long and hard about what your “self” is before you can figure out to be it. You are really asking how to not base yourself on society, and the way you do that is by being a highly intelligent manic schizo who had neglectful parents, if you don’t have that it’s impossible to successfully peel back enough layers of your ego in order to start coming up with your own ideas and believing and doing things completely independent of social influence

>>18850418
*Daily dilation

>>18847999
Everyone's authentic because there's only one of each and every one of us :)))