The Falsehood of Authenticity

Where is mastery?

What is MASTERY?

What is the beginning of mastery?

We may choose to ask:

What is the authentic beginning of 'mastery'?

But this is a false lead, because dialectically if we see ourselves as evolving towards authenticity, then the beginning of such evolution is not authentic at all. In this case we are actually assuming that authenticity is not evolved, or otherwise that authenticity is of no account.

Therefore, the beginning of mastery cannot be 'authentic' at all. So, at the very least it is a poor choice of words.

In order to hold a high standard we choose a weaker judgment of error, and the result is that we decide it is a poor choice of words, rather than completely wrong. After all, there may be an irrational standard by which the beginning is authentic but in an opposite fashion as the end.

In any case, the mastery we seek is more authentic than the beginning of it, or we are saying that the mastery was to become less authentic, or that what is authentic is not a dialectic.

Scary Theorems