[qrsjutsu]

> Maintaining criticality is a fundamental challenge in this new era of trust. Unfortunately, much of what we know about being critical is based on authenticity ethics. Carles blamed the Contemporary Conformist phenomenon on a culture industry hard-set on mining “youth culture dollars.” This very common yet extraordinarily reductive argument, which makes out commodity capitalism to be an all-powerful, intrinsically evil force, is typical of authenticity believers.

Abusing and exploiting teen minds, fallacies, bias, primed emotions and interests and as a result anchoring preferences is "youth culture dollars" and it is an intrinsically ugly force that will bring many more children of bad, ugly and or overly unhealthy stressed parents in shitty school districts to the brink of selling out their bodies and minds before they turn 21. There will be brutal and disgusting debates about whether pedophilia should be/is getting normalized, and I'm not talking the Nabokov kind of think. And it's all linked to authenticity being replaced by "culture dollars". It didn't happen "by force". It happened by brute-forcing one and half generations' minds. Now it's being hard-coded via twitchy TikkTock.