The sickness of my generation is a zealous attachment to “authenticity.” It is stultifying, oppressive, maybe even deadly, and premised on false assumptions about the nature of personal identity. Bowie is the antidote. He taught that persona is performance.

The sickness of my generation is a zealous attachment to “authenticity.” It is stultifying, oppressive, maybe even deadly, and premised on false assumptions about the nature of personal identity. Bowie is the antidote. He taught that persona is performance.

—[Why David Bowie Is Important to Me

The Fly Bottle](http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2016/01/11/why-david-bowie-is-important-to-me/)