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rfmcdonaldMy two posts earlier today touched on the fairly contested question of queer assimilation and the globally vexing issue of authenticity for any number of once-suppressed groups (women, queers, various ethnolinguistic and racial communities, religious groups, et cetera).
What is authenticity? In those steadily expanding areas of the world where different demographics’ differences from older norms are increasingly seen as functionally irrelevant, what does it take to live in good faith with oneself and one’s others? The reasons that the debate I pointed to earlier have elicited such responses have everything to do with the time-honoured question of how people should lead their own lives with integrity.
Well? Me, I’m quite clueless on the issue, altogether lacking any grand theoretical frameworks. You, too?
What is authenticity? In those steadily expanding areas of the world where different demographics’ differences from older norms are increasingly seen as functionally irrelevant, what does it take to live in good faith with oneself and one’s others? The reasons that the debate I pointed to earlier have elicited such responses have everything to do with the time-honoured question of how people should lead their own lives with integrity.
Well? Me, I’m quite clueless on the issue, altogether lacking any grand theoretical frameworks. You, too?
