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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Being fake can also be a way of being real. The act of gluing a mask to your face as an expensive signal that you are of the same in-group.
7:53 PM - 20 Jun 2020
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