Comments on: In Search of Something Real http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/12/28/in-search-of-something-real/ a camera, a passport, a ukulele Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:36:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: In Search Of Authenticity http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/12/28/in-search-of-something-real/comment-page-1/#comment-36143 In Search Of Authenticity Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:00:57 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=516#comment-36143 [...] This post was originally published on Nerd’s Eye View. Reprinted with permission. Pam Mandel is a freelance technical writer, as well as the travel editor for BlogHer. She keeps her own personal blog of photography and musing’s at Nerd’s Eye View. [...] [...] This post was originally published on Nerd’s Eye View. Reprinted with permission. Pam Mandel is a freelance technical writer, as well as the travel editor for BlogHer. She keeps her own personal blog of photography and musing’s at Nerd’s Eye View. [...]

]]> By: RC http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/12/28/in-search-of-something-real/comment-page-1/#comment-24931 RC Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:44:33 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=516#comment-24931 Such a great entry. Thanks and Happy New Year from France. Such a great entry. Thanks and Happy New Year from France.

]]> By: Wandering Dave http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/12/28/in-search-of-something-real/comment-page-1/#comment-24875 Wandering Dave Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:23:33 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=516#comment-24875 " We are both cause and effect of this perceived lack of authenticity. We’re relying on our destinations to provide it, but it’s Shangri-la, it’s Atlantis, it’s Brigadoon and Camelot. You can’t get there from here. The best we can hope for is to be authentic in our travels. Wherever we go, there we are." What WONDERFUL writing! It's a bittersweet fact of life that, once rung, a bell can never be UN-rung. I so often yearn for the joy of FIRST experiences; but once having exprienced, we -- and that which we encountered -- are forever changed. It's true that one can never step into the same river twice; but it's also true that, however slightly, each river we enter is forever changed by our intervention. It kind of makes one want to both hurry out to experience whatever levels of purity remain AND to stay at home so as not to be part of the deflilement. What a wonderful topic for this time of year. ” We are both cause and effect of this perceived lack of authenticity. We’re relying on our destinations to provide it, but it’s Shangri-la, it’s Atlantis, it’s Brigadoon and Camelot. You can’t get there from here.

The best we can hope for is to be authentic in our travels. Wherever we go, there we are.”

What WONDERFUL writing!

It’s a bittersweet fact of life that, once rung, a bell can never be UN-rung. I so often yearn for the joy of FIRST experiences; but once having exprienced, we — and that which we encountered — are forever changed.

It’s true that one can never step into the same river twice; but it’s also true that, however slightly, each river we enter is forever changed by our intervention.

It kind of makes one want to both hurry out to experience whatever levels of purity remain AND to stay at home so as not to be part of the deflilement.

What a wonderful topic for this time of year.

]]> By: anne http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/12/28/in-search-of-something-real/comment-page-1/#comment-24793 anne Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:37:26 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=516#comment-24793 Wow. I have nothing to add. I'm just going to sit here staring at you with my mouth open in awe for a bit. Wow. I have nothing to add. I’m just going to sit here staring at you with my mouth open in awe for a bit.

]]> By: wildsoda http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/12/28/in-search-of-something-real/comment-page-1/#comment-24739 wildsoda Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:09:31 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=516#comment-24739 That ties into what I've always felt about the perceived lack of authenticity of city life. There's a dominant cultural trope that living in the countryside is the "real" way of life, and that all city folk are really just miserable rat-racers who yearn to get out to the country and have a big house on lots of land, etc. Or that being middle-class in a big Western city isn't as "authentic" a way of life as being a poor Southeast Asian with livestock in the yard. And both of those ideas have always really bugged me, as someone who's a city-dweller by nature. If I'm being who I am, why shouldn't my life be considered as authentic as anyone else's? That ties into what I’ve always felt about the perceived lack of authenticity of city life. There’s a dominant cultural trope that living in the countryside is the “real” way of life, and that all city folk are really just miserable rat-racers who yearn to get out to the country and have a big house on lots of land, etc. Or that being middle-class in a big Western city isn’t as “authentic” a way of life as being a poor Southeast Asian with livestock in the yard. And both of those ideas have always really bugged me, as someone who’s a city-dweller by nature. If I’m being who I am, why shouldn’t my life be considered as authentic as anyone else’s?

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