{"id":11598,"date":"2019-01-15T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:56:37","slug":"the-game-of-pseudo-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-game-of-pseudo-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Pseudo-Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">A<\/span>mericans always have been prone to reinventing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>We now live in an age of radical social construction\u2014a sort of expansive update on F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s American notion of becoming anyone one pleases.<\/p>\n<p>One common denominator, however, seems to govern today\u2019s endless search for some sort of authenticity: a careerist effort to separate oneself from the assumed dominant and victimizing majority of white heterosexual and often Christian males.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the quest for a superficial separation from the majority comes at a time when the majority has never been so committed to the promise of the Declaration of Independence and when equal opportunity has become a reality rather than an abstract ideal.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in our new binary society, we all have a choice to be seen either as victims or victimizers. And thus we make the necessary adjustments for the often more lucrative and careerist choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/01\/13\/the-game-of-pseudo-authenticity\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Americans always have been prone to reinventing themselves. We now live in an age of radical social construction\u2014a sort of expansive update on F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s American notion of becoming anyone one pleases. One common denominator, however, seems to govern today\u2019s endless search for some sort of authenticity: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-314","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11897,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/democratic-candidates-are-running-a-race-of-authenticity\/","url_meta":{"origin":11598,"position":0},"title":"Democratic Candidates Are Running a Race of Authenticity","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness An epidemic of false identities, massaged resumes and warped ancestries has broken out among the current Democratic presidential primary candidates. 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