What makes art relevant if not authenticity?
Are you able to distinguish clearly between ordinary experiences and luxury experiences?
Have you ever been treated as though you are undeserving of necessities?
Do you think art is necessary?
Do you think art is ordinary?
Perhaps you think art is a luxury.
How much do you value non-corrupt cultures?
How do you define corruption and its absence?
How do you prevent yourself from being corrupted?
Perhaps you mainly measure value in terms of money.
How do you attempt to tell whether people are devout or deluded?
When is one form of devotion any better or worse than another?
Perhaps you prefer to express authenticity by avoiding all individuals and organisations and media outlets encouraging unreasonable beliefs.
How do you know when someone is deluded?
How do you know you are not one of them?
How do you attempt to help people to become more reasonable?If you do not associate simple living, intelligent kindness and importantly useful information with nation-states, or even societies, that is understandable. States tend to be corrupt. Societies tend to be overly complicated.
There is no point in attempting to live simply, calmly and authentically with aggressive neighbours, whether on a local scale or an international scale. To do so would be complacently dismissive of appropriate responsibilities.
If you believe yourself to be relatively reasonable, you may assume other people are either equally as reasonable as yourself or not reasonable at all.
How do you know whether a person is more reasonable than yourself in a particular situation?
What is reasonable about opinions?
What is reasonable about perceptions?
What is reasonable about authenticity?
What is reasonable about investing in social research?
Perhaps you would rather not answer questions about your experiences of authentic living.
How have you been responding to earlier episodes in this series, and other opportunities to learn in and from Frugality Cottage?