Does anyone else kind of suspect that the concept of authenticity is implicitly aristocratic, if not inherently Fascist? I don't understand Heidegger very well and do actually like Sartre, but, when people speak of things being authentic, I can't help but wonder if they don't quite realize that they are either expressing a desire for them to be of a world that has been cultivated by old wealth or making an appeal to a cult of action. What, of any human life, is inauthentic and who gets to delimit the authentic from it? It's something that I only suspect to be sort of there, but I do think that it sort of is there, which is kind of ironic for me, as I can be likely to occasionally invoke the Sartrean concept of false consciousness, perhaps his most notable leaf from Heidegger's principal concept. Like I said, though, I don't really understand Heidegger.