Such a profound life lesson is taught in this article. Especially in nowadays situation, being authentic to yourself is abnormal and criticized as unsociable.
Only when you get a huge amount of spotlight and make a giant fortune, people then recognize the significance of being different from the social norms.
Pretense feeds on pretense. Once a genuine person can start to pretend to attract more headlines and money. Even though people surrounding them are all pretense and just want to take some advantage. Being a pretense yourself becomes numb to being genuine and used to showering in pretense admiration.