E262. The Paradox of Authenticity - Thomas de Zengotita

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Mediated Series - Part 7: Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It, became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landsc ape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter. Thomas de Zengotita returns to continue the discussion about his book Mediated. This week he and Bridget cover the paradox of authenticity, how you can't be self-conscious about who you are and still be authentic, how we're all essentially performing our "true selves," and how the only real thing in today's mediated culture is an accident. They cover the amount of time we spend in between the screen world and the real world, choosing between the versions of yourself that you’re constantly playing, being busy is a way of being “somebody,” why the ultimate form of mediation is language itself, why progressives who are always right are phony progressives, how people are less likely to be depressed or anxious when they’re absolutely certain of stuff, when the absence of stimulation causes panic, the difference between witnessing & rubbernecking, and what it means to live a life of doubt. Sponsor Links: Patriot Gold - Call 888-614-9238 We Are Not Journalists Podcast - https://spoti.fi/3R0a0bZ Pluto TV - https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	This week on the podcast we welcome back author of my favorite book mediated Thomas
0:05.1	desengotita we have a great conversation as usual and I love him.
0:10.1	The kind of reflexivity that we all developed about ourselves and in the process of kind of figuring out who you are
0:19.3	so that you can perform your who you are better. I mean what a paradox right. Yeah. I want to know
0:27.5	who I really am so I can give a better performance of what I really am. I don't think people think of it that way though, you know.
0:34.6	That's what they're doing. Right. To just talk to anybody who's seriously been through
0:40.1	therapy about why they're better and how they're better.
0:44.2	And you just tweak the lines a little bit
0:47.2	and you'll find that they're saying,
0:49.2	I found out who I really am now
0:51.6	and I'm not afraid to be myself. Well that that means that you are now, you know,
0:58.6	feeling freer to perform who what you really are.
1:02.9	You can't, it can't not be a performance
1:06.3	if you're that self-conscious about it.
1:08.8	This is Walkins, Welcome with Bridget Fetticy.
1:11.5	I'm Bridget Fettice, and you are welcome. You know the drill?
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