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100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism

New Books in Buddhist Studies

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The Progression of Authenticity

Authenticity is another word that comes up in each is work and it's interesting that one way of looking at the kind of campus culture in the UK and in America is being rooted in dysfunction. And I can't help but think that something like authenticity or having your true identity is being packaged as yet another American commodity. The idea that's being sold to a lot of young people, unfortunately is that you know they just have to discover their true self and then that becomes a kind of commodity which then they own, and they will be fulfilled in some, some way.

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