{"product_id":"keep-it-fake-inventing-an-authentic-life-by-eric-wilson","title":"Keep It Fake Inventing an Authentic Life by Eric Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShoot straight from the hip. Tell it like it is. Keep it real. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe love these commands, especially in America, because they appeal to what we want to believe: that there's an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we're inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, and tuning in to news that simply verifies our opinions. Reality bites, after all, and becoming disillusioned is a downer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new book \u003ci\u003eKeep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there's no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are shaping the raw data of our right into fabulous stories or we're so saturated by society's conventions that we're always acting out prefab scripts, we can't help but be phony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut is that really so bad? We're used to being scolded for being fake, but Wilson doesn't scold--because he doesn't think we need to be reprimanded. Our ability to remake ourselves into the people we want to be, or at least remake ourselves to \u003ci\u003elook \u003c\/i\u003elike the people we want to be, is in fact a magical process that can be liberating in its own way. Because if we're all a bunch of fakes, shouldn't we embrace that? And if everything really is fake, then doesn't the fake become real--really?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn lively prose--honest, provocative, witty, wide-ranging (as likely to riff on Bill Murray as to contemplate Plato)--\u003ci\u003eKeep It Fake \u003c\/i\u003eanswers these questions, uncovering bracing truths about what it means to be human and helping us turn our necessary lying into artful living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus \u0026 Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43010005073983,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/5491653482321.jpg?v=1773662820","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/keep-it-fake-inventing-an-authentic-life-by-eric-wilson","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}