Our Story
The idea for a print-only, non-digital magazine began when I read a news article about young professionals refusing to use AI. A concern about its massive impact on our lives had been forming for some time in my mind, and the article confirmed that I wasn't alone. From that, the leap to a physical, print-only magazine created by genuine humans wasn't too far. Genuine Article magazine has a simple goal: to provide excellent writing that connects us with each other and our world. So much of this vital connection is lost when the physical is abandoned for the digital and the genuine for the artificial. We aren't anti-tech, but stand decidedly against AI-created art and literature and we stubbornly maintain that the most soul-stirring stories and words come from the human mind.
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A Word from Our Founder
Welcome
In some ways this magazine is full circle for me. As a teen, I loved BMX magazines and watched for their arrival every month. At some point during this period, I learned about zines—handmade, DIY “magazines”, smaller and less professional than a magazine—but also more personal. It wasn’t long before I created Unity Zine. Each cover of Unity was hand-drawn, my mom printed the copies on her work printer, and I stapled them together in my living room. It was a passion project. And so is Genuine Article.
Life has changed since those teenage Unity years. I’ve lived in several countries, started a family, read some great thinkers and experienced my fair share of questions about what really matters. Along the way, I’ve also observed technology’s creep into every aspect of our lives. Nothing is sacred from its metastasizing affect—it will lodge it’s noise and distraction into our most private places. I’ve thought often of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s elegant description of this problem. Her words ring even more true today than when they were written in 1955, and form part of the basis for Genuine Article:
"We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends and movies should fail, there is still the radio or television to fill up the void. Women, who used to complain of loneliness, need never be alone any more. We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our sides. Even day-dreaming was more creative than this; it demanded something of oneself and it fed the inner life. Now, instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops, there is no inner music to take it’s place."
It is my sincere hope that this magazine be a place that feeds your inner life and amplifies your inner music.
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