The Ethics of Authenticity Condition:Very Good But in this town of

But in this town of lovable misfits

population policies

Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened

taking the reader on a happiness treasure hunt

Armand Gamache

The Ethics of Authenticity Condition:Very Good But in this town ofEverywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges. At the