RE: The Authenticity Paradox: The Fine Line Between Honesty And Bullshit...
I must say, I am slightly confused. The roller coaster you just put me on is forcing my brain to try to put together your thoughts.
However, I do agree that being authentic can be a problem. What if my authentic self is stuck in a BiasNarrative that I cannot get out of. What if my authentic self is a PoS that just wants to make you believe what I believe and does not care about the benefit to humanity or to the person who follows my lead.
However, as I am sure you know, being authentic is better than being fake or forcing a falsehood of who I am. Take Alex Jones of InfoWars for example. He is extremely inauthentic in the way that he acts crazy to just make money. (Maybe he is actually slightly crazy) But to me, there is nothing authentic about the guy. He uses people and ideas to gain personally. But wait, couldn't that in itself mean he is being his authentic self? Could his authentic self simply be a con artist taking money from those who most likely need it more than he does?
I think that authenticity is simply a part of the equation. The equation probably also involves self-understanding, experience, bias, effort, et all.
I want to see authenticity, meaning it came from you and not someone else. I want to see quality effort into your ideas, perhaps that means looking into links and posting those links for reference, or using what you have lived through in your life.
But more than anything, I want to see you are open to other points of view and able to accept other viewpoints in your life.
As always, thanks for a look into something complex and delicate.
-BiasNarrative
Hehe. Perfect. Never try too hard to “put together my thoughts” - perhaps instead, sit in contemplation in the space of overlap not of “my thoughts,” but the perspectives the words are merely access codes to. There’s no linear order the ideas will fit into - these types of contrastive perspectives are merely an exercise in developing the capacities to break down the binary thinking, gaining access to Truths lying in the middle - something that can’t be “put together,” but rather grasped with the correct shifts in focus to reveal dimensions woven in between and underneath the surface “thoughts.” ;-)
Your welcome. And thank you for the awesome contribution to the discussion. Your comments really are consistently some of the best I’ve been getting lately. Your additions to this community are indeed valuable. 🙏
Oh I like that........ So just to put that into plain English, this post is just one in a long line of posts that will help straighten your thoughts for yourself to further understand.
Perhaps. Or maybe it’s just a vortex of confusion. Lol. (Or anything and everything in between). :-p