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I believe I found you through other Substack writers. I think a previous article (Towards a Better Class Analysis) may have been linked or sent out through someone else. I loved that first article I read by you so much that I immediately decided to support your work and get a subscription. I am happy I did. I think the more re-tweeting is done by journalists supporting each other, the more people like me will get to know who we want to choose our new "news anchors" to be.

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I've been thinking a lot about authenticity in America recently. I grew up in the US and other countries. I moved away from the USA ten years ago and haven't looked back. It is a very inauthentic place where authenticity is packaged and sold at a premium. Living overseas is a much more authentic experience because the locals don't know how to be any other way. I wonder if authenticity is making a come back in the US because of the trends in social media. It started with amateurs, then pros who faked big lifestyles, and seems to now be financially rewarding to authentic small creators. But I might be getting fooled. And this may just be an online trend where the outside culture is still as fake and packaged as ever. What is it like now?

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