{"id":802,"date":"2026-10-08T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/authenticity-is-exactly-the-same-as-phoniness-marginal-revolution\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:43:10","slug":"authenticity-is-exactly-the-same-as-phoniness-marginal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/authenticity-is-exactly-the-same-as-phoniness-marginal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Authenticity is exactly the same as phoniness.&#8221; &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Authenticity is exactly the same as phoniness. Good writing is never authentic to the self, because a good writer needs to know that the self is fundamentally unknowable: it\u2019s the \u2018wedge-shaped core of darkness\u2019 that Virginia Woolf saw humming beneath the surface of daily life, and definitely not anything you can write autofiction about.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/10\/authenticity-is-exactly-the-same-as-phoniness.html\">marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/10\/authenticity-is-exactly-the-same-as-phoniness.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authenticity is exactly the same as phoniness. Good writing is never authentic to the self, because a good writer needs to know that the self is fundamentally unknowable: it\u2019s the \u2018wedge-shaped core of darkness\u2019 that Virginia Woolf saw humming beneath the surface of daily life, and definitely not anything you can write autofiction about. \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,3,199,6],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-authenticity","tag-books","tag-the-self","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}