{"id":19104,"date":"2011-03-21T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=19104"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:24:24","slug":"liberty-vintage-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/liberty-vintage-motorcycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This morning we’ve been thinking about a phenomenon that’s been trawling its way through every aspect of our culture of late.<\/p>\n

It’s all about authenticity.<\/p>\n

In the boomtimes we’re always simply worried about the new: the cutting edge, the innovative, the next big thing. Bubble economies are inflated by this endless chase for the next way to turn around a pound note. It takes harder times and shrinking economies to wake us up to the enduring fact that the hand-wrought, the bespoke: the authentic<\/em> are the things that really move your soul.<\/p>\n

When all’s said and done, something that is abstracted from trends and flashes-in-the-pan; things that are rooted in things like hard-work, classic aesthetics and tradition – these are the things that bring you through the bad times.<\/p>\n

The film below, that focuses on Liberty Vintage Motorcycles<\/a> is a classic example of a focus on something that aches within us.<\/p>\n

Now where did I put that adjustable spanner?<\/p>\n