Struggle_For_Personal_Authenticity

Struggle For Personal Authenticity In our post-industrial society there has become a greater importance for personal authenticity, but to understand this struggle for personal authenticity we must look at the current cultural climate we live in. In pre-industrialized societies change occurred over numerous generations but in our post-industrial society we see that change occurs numerous times within our own lifetime. We this rapid change we see a shift from maintaining core traditions, values, beliefs, to a society whereby we must be constantly changing, but this change has become rather superficial, so as fast as we can change our tires we can change our beliefs, values, and traditions. In essence, we have become an ideological and spiritually drifting society and we suffer from a phenomenon that Emile Durkheim called “anomie” or normlessness. It is ever difficult to be authentic when our society lacks grounded ness when it comes to our being, for how can we be true to the self when social change is so rapid. From this current cultural climate we see the struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. In our society, we tend to fracture people into labels for the sake convenience; for society, become, human, time, personal, growing, being, authentic, values, requires, death, love, change, beings, authenticity, struggle, must, culture, something, life, internet, effort, education, beliefs, system, simplicity, self, relationships, person, modern, media, individuals, convenience, between, virtuous