AUTHORITY ↬ AUTHENTICITY
In 1984, millions of viewers watched spellbound as an athletic young woman ran up the aisle of a theater and hurled a sledgehammer at a colossal image of Big Brother. It was only a TV commercial for Apple, but it struck a chord with a consumer movement that was starting to flex its muscles.
The rise of consumerism, combined with the democratization of technology, encouraged us to look deeper inside the companies we do business with. People began to glimpse the motives, practices, and deceptions that had previously been obscured. Today, we no longer accept the authority of large organizations simply because they’re large. We now look for something more than authority. We look for authenticity.
We talk a lot about authenticity, ...
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