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Poll: What kind of public persona do you have, for things like social media, public speaking, parties, larger work meetings?
  • Authentic
    40.9%
  • Awkward
    21.1%
  • 1-size-fits-all game face
    19%
  • Kayfabe variety show
    19%
247 votesFinal results
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Interesting disconnect between performed and felt identity these days. I think many can seem to perform "have self-authorship" on instagram/twitter without actually being stage 5 in their lives overall. I'm amazed at how teens manage the schizoid condition
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Yes… although dissonance between public and private selves, and the alienation that induces, has been a major theme for a century or more. What seems new: social media make everyone’s performances more public, and also atomize their productions into disconnected fragments.
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I think you're going to lose the pedantry battles if your popularization succeeds :D I just remembered I wrote this thing in 2007 about this stuff. Hadn't heard of Kegan at that point. Would be interesting to revisit in Kegan light. I was also younger
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I was post-authentic before it was cool 🙂 Speaking of which there seems to be a sudden crop of posts on post-authenticity. Maybe idea is finally going normie.
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