The Performance of Being Real (or the strange death of authenticity)

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A conversation about The Performance of Being Real — examining how we turned authenticity into a genre, vulnerability into content and privacy into a personality flaw.If everyone’s “just being real,” why does it all feel so rehearsed?Source essay: The Performance of Being Real (or the strange death of authenticity)https://straightface.substack.com/p/the-performance-of-being-real

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