Anyone who is too authentic risks not being appreciated as such.

Most countries that make great economic and social progress are not democracies. South Korea moved from Level 1 to Level 3 faster than any country had ever done (without finding oil), all the time as a military dictatorship. Of the ten countries with the fastest economic growth in 2016, nine of them score low on democracy.

Under the current US system, rich, insured patients visit doctors more than they need, running up costs, while poor patients cannot afford even simple, inexpensive treatments and die younger than they should.

Nothing is as unoriginal as the desire to be original.

Since authenticity needs to be recognizable, authentic individuals need to be authentic in more or less the same “fashion.