The well-worn path of holier-than-thou-ism on the left leads nowhere and will get us all killed. Few (if any) in this world can claim genuine moral superiority. "Authenticity", as it is now understood, is only a code word for the suppression of originality. The "good person" / "bad person" signifier matching game, like most of what passes for culture, is almost totally devoid of meaning in a soulless copycat / shakedown society in which money trumps everything and brute force is the only currency in circulation. Our postindustrial meltdown is the inevitable result of a raging intellectual bonfire in light of which the primary goal of enterprise has become not the generation of works possessing any intrinsic or enduring value, but merely the placement of other practioners of whatever art at a competitive disadvantage.
Where honest living has been made impossible, thieves and thugs set up shop and take root. Our major cities are full of well-intentioned (and doubtless very useful) idiots who are, if anything, even more convinced than their avowedly neofascist foils that progress can mean only one thing: eliminate the competition, or, in the case of certain insurance companies, the customer as well.
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