psychovertical
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Hi UKB types, Andy 'edge lord' Kirkpatrick here. For some reason, I've started getting activity posts from UKB, which have started to pop up at the same time as someone asked me to do a podcast on the subject of authenticity. The two things seem related, and although it might be more fitting to ask the question on UKC, the fact I'd get zapped in seconds for posting anything at all, I thought I'd ask the question here.
My authenticity question is, is authenticity a negative in the 21st century? Is it just an inability to conform, to give in to pressure or intimidation, to go along to get along, to adopt the views of your betters (like Andy Popp ; ), to agree, or just keep your mouth shut? Is it a noble thing and a virtue, or is it stupid, maybe even self-destructive (many creative people are self-destructive for a good reason, as it avoids that "second album" problem)?
I pretty much burnt up all my social capital in 2014 (for various reasons), lost my social tenure after going against my tribe (the majority of UK climbers are middle-class Labour voting professionals who work in the public sector or are public sector adjacent, while I was a Labour voting working class self-employed pleb, which pretty much makes you hard-Right in 2024). Maybe I was one of the first climbers to get cancelled (I had people writing to anyone I had any dealing with telling them I was deplorable, including sponsors, publishers, mag editors, and even the BMC in regards to funding to Jen Randell's film of Psychovertical), but I'm not complaining, it was trip!
Anyway, seeing as it's ten years later, and some of the stuff I talked about ten years ago, untouchable subjects, are now being discussed by your Labour leader and are mainstream, is authenticity worth the cost when, really, you can just conform - which is really an act of humiliation, but most people kind of get off on that - and just change with the times?
My authenticity question is, is authenticity a negative in the 21st century? Is it just an inability to conform, to give in to pressure or intimidation, to go along to get along, to adopt the views of your betters (like Andy Popp ; ), to agree, or just keep your mouth shut? Is it a noble thing and a virtue, or is it stupid, maybe even self-destructive (many creative people are self-destructive for a good reason, as it avoids that "second album" problem)?
I pretty much burnt up all my social capital in 2014 (for various reasons), lost my social tenure after going against my tribe (the majority of UK climbers are middle-class Labour voting professionals who work in the public sector or are public sector adjacent, while I was a Labour voting working class self-employed pleb, which pretty much makes you hard-Right in 2024). Maybe I was one of the first climbers to get cancelled (I had people writing to anyone I had any dealing with telling them I was deplorable, including sponsors, publishers, mag editors, and even the BMC in regards to funding to Jen Randell's film of Psychovertical), but I'm not complaining, it was trip!
Anyway, seeing as it's ten years later, and some of the stuff I talked about ten years ago, untouchable subjects, are now being discussed by your Labour leader and are mainstream, is authenticity worth the cost when, really, you can just conform - which is really an act of humiliation, but most people kind of get off on that - and just change with the times?