A New Definition of Authenticity

YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE IN VIDEOS 

It makes authenticity so much more trivial. Good actors can convince people that they are a certain type of people. I guess that actors are genuine aces at being fake. Shields talks about a new definition of realness and genuineness. He says that there is a difference between wearing masks and being different people. I suppose the masks are a fake you, where you act as you are not. A different you would be something that is genuinely you and not a fake you. 

Actors in this case would wear masks. Someone who is very flexible would be a truly genuine person. We could use an example of a theoretical CIA agent.

This theoretical CIA agent could be the most genuine. He is a serious agent when working, but a family man at home. He is not being fake, but flexible. 

Scripted Authenticity

Why look at the authenticity of something that is scripted?

Well, if we see the project that we just completed, we see that it's bullshit. I mean frankly, is it really authentic? Does it appear authentic? The video itself looks sooooo scripted it's not even funny (well it's a little bit funny). For example, it's obvious that we're reading off of a piece of paper. 

In the original recording that we did before making the video (that was a component of the project), I felt like our script seemed quite authentic. That's why there were so many stutters and pauses. The revised script was a result of the errors from the extremely authentic, original audio recording. I think that after that point, the only way to be authentic would be to be a really good actor, able to stutter and pause appearing authentic. It's hard to be so real. I suppose that's why we leave it up to the pros.They know how to be fake as hell. Props.

Videography and Data

You can see people in videos 

It makes authenticity so much more trivial. Good actors can convince people that they are a certain type of people. I guess that real talk project helped us realize that struggles of making things authentic. I know our's isn't. At all.

Anyways, we took this script and video recorded it, in essence finishing our real talk project. 

I don't really know what to think of this. Well honestly, I do. Bleh.
My work is usually better then this but it's ok. This is teamwork. 

Authenticity defined

We don't know what it means

But this guy tried to explain it. Charles Guignon wrote a book called On Being Authentic. This book is really about why authenticity is what it is. Why is it the ultimate goal in the lives of so many people? Is it about finding one's self, or something greater? Heck, I don't know.

But this guy seems to make me think. He references many different people, like Socrates and Augustine, and discusses. I suppose he doesn't really make solid claims, but it's something. After going deeper into it, he talks about how authenticity is more for us. We are social creatures and we must accept that. 

"...being authentic is not about what is owed to me but how I depend on others."

Bullshit

Bah, Humbug. We curse so much in class.

We had to read this paper called "On Bullshit", by Harry Frankfurt. This guy says that there is "so much bullshit" in the world nowadays. I definitely agree... 

A lot of things are bullshit. I mean, in school and even college so many kids clearly bullshit their way through many situations. I'd say it's more in English Class because it's hard to bullshit math and engineering. But then again, we can't be sure wether it is bullshit or not... I mean, is this bullshit? 

Anyways, this guy also says that humbug and bullshit are very similar in meaning. 

It's not that I've heard the word a lot but I guess he's right. A lot of bad things happened to Scrooge, and when bad things happen to us we think of it as bullshit. 

I feel like this post is a little bit of bullshit. Frankfurt is right: Bullshit is everywhere.

This Game of 'Real Talk'...

We've started our project next project... 

The basis behind this project is to make a script of some sort of conversation and make it sound authentic. It's kind of funny because it's fake. But I mean I guess it does help make us understand the whole concept of realness. In phase one, we were just to do a voice recording. We've done this part (my partner and I) and now we're about to get to the next couple of phases. 

Here's an excerpt: 

W: I guess, but- it- is- also- so convenient.
Q: But it’s crippling us in the long run. Technology gives us too many opportunities, and we don’t know what to do with them. We try to do all- we can’t- we tried to do everything, but we can’t finish one thing as good as if we ha- didn’t have the distractions

W: I suppose. Ha, It’s obvious when we do homework- Facebook is a hell of a distraction. Nowadays people block Facebook when studying.

Q: Th- I mean, that’s a good start, but really, it’s not enough really. It seems that  every- everyone has self-inflicted ADD now.

In essence, this is how it happened... We made a script, recorded and then added a lot of edits to make an accurate transcription.  The conversation is fake, but the transcription is real... Kind of confusing, but it makes sense.

Seriously though, this next phase will be fun. It's a video project.