TomD
Well, in all likelihood, for most of us, it is all affected. It takes a lifetime to develop a sincere personal style, if one wants to jump around a lot in the process there is virtually no hope that one will do anything other than pretend. The key to a style such as Yanagi referred to was to be unaware one was doing anything special. Women have nursed children for millions of years, but today it would be perfectly reasonable for the main thought going through one's head to be whether one was being virtuous in any of a dozen dictated ways. Virtue is a fine thing. But the person who said "the unexamined life isn't worth living" was an extremist of sorts.