TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tolentino,Jia
TI  - Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion
SN  - 9780525510567
U1  - 973.93 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 21st century
N1  - The I in internet -- Reality TV me -- Always be optimizing -- Pure heroines -- Ecstasy -- The story of a generation in seven scams -- We come from old Virginia -- The cult of the difficult woman -- I thee dread
N2  - Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino's sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet
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