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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/annonnnnn82736 on 2025-09-19 19:06:18+00:00.

Authenticity is the false dichotomy humans cling to as they destroy the only authentic thing in existence…nature itself. We romanticize the idea of being real or genuine while living in systems that strip away every layer of what was once natural. Everything we claim to value as authentic, culture tradition identity expression is filtered through manufactured pipelines designed by corporate interest social performance and algorithmic manipulation. The irony is that in chasing authenticity we’ve buried it. The only thing that remains untouched by this industrial illusion is nature and even that is being paved over and poisoned under the guise of progress. While we brand ourselves with labels build aesthetic lifestyles and try to craft meaning in the chaos we’re ignoring the one presence that never needed branding the earth. Every synthetic experience every attempt to mimic life through tech through image through simulation is a desperate attempt to recreate what we already had. We aren’t evolving we’re deleting and replacing. The fact that we’ve reached a point where the only truly radical act is to sit in a forest and breathe without distraction shows how far gone we are. Authenticity isn’t found in consumption or creation it’s found in stillness and we’ve declared war on it.