Frequently, when people mention authenticity it comes hand in hand with an underlying and all too often unchallenged (romanticist) assumption that only face-to-face experience can truly be authentic.
But why should we be required to have to share the same temporal and spatial co-ordinates as another person in order to experience or share something authentic with them?
To be human is to be neurodiverse; I believe passionately in the importance of cognitive liberty.
What best suits some people doesn't best suit everybody. And different experiences (including different mediated experiences) will give varying degrees of nourishment depending on each individual. And equally what might seem authentic or of value to one person may be entirely meaningless and empty to another also.
Variety and diversity is what's important, I reckon. And the more options we have to communicate and share with one another and learn about one another, the better.
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