The focus on "being real", on keeping other people "real", and on "authenticity" itself found in the poor are all born out of the intense and entirely valid awareness of the fact that poverty totalizes the consciousness of its victims, artificializing them. Poor people are fake.
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More specifically, poverty is a water line beneath which the weak in spirit drown and continue to drown.
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Since they have nothing but drowning, the act of drowning which they themselves have not even chosen and cannot rise above, this becomes synonymous with authenticity to them as a form of naked denial of reality.
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