Where is the outrage?
Many are asking that (now-cliched) question regarding the latest news: China faked the singing and some of the fireworks in its (wonderfully staged) opening ceremony to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Perhaps the wittiest take on it — courtesy of our gal-about-thinkAbout Edina Lessack, who pointed it out to us — comes from Chicago Tribune critic Julia Keller: The ‘Age of Fake’: Fireworks, singers, and beyond
Keller asserts we’re in the “Age of Fake” where “Fake doesn’t seem to bother us much anymore. Fake is an accepted part of life. Fake sells.”
Except, rather obviously, that it does seem to bother Ms. Keller and the host of other folks who are bringing it to everybody’s attention on Fox News, CNN, and all over the web (where Googling “Yang Peiyi” already yields over 45,000 hits at the time of this writing).
So, yes, we are in an Age of Fake — “the toxic levels of inauthenticity we’re forced to breathe” as we put it in Chapter 3 — and that all the more creates the desire for the real.
Do also note at the end of her essay this new book — not yet officially published (but already pre-ordered from Amazon here: Amazon.com: The Thing Itself: Richard Todd: Books) which looks to be taking a quite interesting look at the subject of authenticity from a personal and societal level.
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