“Age of Authenticity.” For the first time it was proposed that the individual self—not the family, tribe, or nation—was of paramount importance. Identity no longer came through submitting to one’s duties in a community. The self could create its own truths and morality, and the society would have to adjust to it. Significance came not through our roles in society but through self-expression—through finding and achieving our “true” and “authentic” self.1 In college I was able to consider living without