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TITLE: Trick Mirror AUTHOR: Jia Tolentino NUMBER OF PAGES: 304 EST. READ TIME:6 hours 48 minutes PRICE: $27.95 WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Trick Mirror is an exploration into
self delusion and how it intersects every part of our lives. Jia Tolentino investigates how self delusion has affected her own journey as a writer and human being through anecdotes and some self reflection. But the success of Trick Mirror comes from the real world references as to how we are being shaped and the power we hold in fooling ourselves.
WHO IT'S FOR: Anyone who is finding living in the internet selfie age a little baffling and uncomfortable.
WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT: As we continue to move
forward as a world addicted to the increasing advances in technology, and with no real guidelines as to how we should be interacting with it, Trick Mirror is an interesting roadblock to stop and assess how we can convince ourselves of possessing identities that don’t belong to us. We are in many ways caught up in a perpetual cycle of fake news, sponsored content and instagram posts. Jia Tolentino is masterful in highlighting the danger of a culture that revolves around self.
NOTABLE QUOTES: "I’ve been thinking about five
intersecting problems: first, how the internet is built to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understanding of solidarity; and, finally, how it destroys our sense of scale.”
Review written by Jessie Hilton @jessieahilton
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