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Name: Trick Mirror
Rating: 4 (58 reviews)
Author: Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino

Reflections on Self-Delusion

4 (58 Bewertungen)

27 Min.

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Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino examines the contradictions of modern life, from social media to wedding culture, and explores how we construct our identities in a world constantly demanding the performance of self.

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What’s in it for me? See our confusing times through the eyes of a radical thinker.

The thoughts and stories in these blinks were gathered during a time of crisis.

Jia Tolentino began writing them just after the election of Donald Trump in 2016. By telling them, she attempts to reckon with the cultural, social, and political changes that preceded and followed this historical event.

In doing so, Jia considers the internet and reality TV, the similarities between drugs and religion, the pitfalls of liberal feminism, and many other phenomena that define our time. Threading the personal into the cultural into the political, she shows how our collective narratives shape our individual ones – and how they have shaped her own.

Like a trick mirror, these blinks may bend and transform your view of yourself and the world you live in.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

how athleisure became the quintessential fashion statement of our time;
what compels modern grifters; and
why female celebrities are flawed ambassadors of feminism.

The internet has turned us all into narcissists – and our narcissism into business.

“I’m literally addicted to the web,” Jia Tolentino wrote in her online diary at the age of 12.

That was in the early 2000s, before we all became addicted to the web. Actually, back then, the internet wasn’t much of a web at all. It was more of a loose collection of people’s private obsessions. Services like GeoCities allowed users to build personal websites dedicated to golfing, or Ricky Martin, or, in Jia’s case, the TV series Dawson’s Creek.

But then, the Web 2.0 rolled around. With the advent of blogging, people’s online lives started to connect and intermingle. As more and more people started to share their lives online, it became harder to participate in society without having an online presence on centralized platforms such as Myspace– or later, Facebook and Instagram.

The key message here is: The internet has turned us all into narcissists – and our narcissism into business.

While the Web 1.0 was ruled by the idea that you could be anyone you wanted online, the Web 2.0 closely entwined our online lives and our real lives. Of course, we all wanted to make sure that only the best parts of our real lives ended up online.

In a world governed by hashtags, comments, and likes, we learned to post only the most flattering selfies. We learned to express either our most relatable or our most extreme opinions. And we learned to align ourselves with trendy political causes to demonstrate our virtue to the world.

Of course, people put on a show all the time in real life, too. In 1959, sociologist Erving Goffman described how any human interaction requires us to perform a certain role.

At a job interview, for example, you might play the conscientious worker. But around your friends, you’re known as the bubbly entertainer. It’s only when you’re not being watched that you might feel as if your mask is coming off.

The problem is that the internet doesn’t have scene breaks, or a backstage, for this to happen. Our online selves need to perform all the time, for everyone. Your Facebook self, for example, interacts with your boss, your spouse, and your 11-year-old niece alike.

And companies like Facebook have made a business out of our complicated online performance. They no longer profit by selling us stuff, but by selling us – our identities, our relationships, and of course, our data.

Appearing on a reality TV show can be a way to indulge your self-delusion – and to reckon with it.

There’s a dark secret in Jia’s past, one that she’s tried to hide, even from herself: when she was 16, she appeared on a reality TV show.

Girls v. Boys – Puerto Rico was the fourth season of a low-budget production from the early 2000s. In it, Jia and three other girls competed against a team of four adolescent boys in various physical challenges for a prize of $50,000.

Beauty ideals for women haven’t become any less demanding – they’ve just shapeshifted.

Feminism is now mainstream – and for the most part, that’s a good thing.

Today, even “old school” women’s magazines like Cosmopolitan push the idea that women should decide for themselves how they want to look, love, and live.

Women in literature are often characterized as innocent children, sad teenagers, and bitter adults.

If you’re an avid reader, you know the feeling of remembering a favorite character’s life better than your own.

For young Jia, the heroines of her favorite novels were like an extension of herself. But reflecting on their stories later, she found that their lives all followed an eerily similar trajectory.

Religious ecstasy is not so different from chemical ecstasy.

Jia spent much of her early life in a church so big that it’s nicknamed the “Repentagon.”

It was one of those megachurches typical of Texas: a $97 billion campus complete with a preschool, kindergarten, and high school. As a child, Jia felt at home there. She happily attended the church services and fondly remembers how pure and blessed the love of God could make her feel.

Scamming is the quintessential ethos of our times.

It was supposed to be the most exclusive music festival ever. Instead, it ended up becoming the funniest flop in recent memory.

We’re talking, of course, about Fyre Festival. This luxury music festival was scheduled to take place on an island in the Bahamas in April 2017. But when guests arrived at the scene, there were none of the promised exclusive performances, VIP yurts, or even a stage. There were only wet mattresses, disaster-relief tents, and soggy sandwiches.

Despite feminism’s many accomplishments, sexual violence is still deeply ingrained in our society.

Jia wasn’t planning to attend the University of Virginia in Charlottesville when she visited it in her senior year of high school. But when she saw the green, sun-lit campus, she fell in love and knew it would be an idyllic place to kick off her writing career.

Later, after finishing her MFA and moving to New York, Jia didn’t think much of UVA anymore. But then, in 2014, Rolling Stone published a story that placed her old university at the top of the news cycle.

Our new obsession with “difficult” female celebrities is diluting the wider feminist project.

If you believe women’s magazines of recent years, celebrities are our new feminist superheroes. Britney Spears is a sympathetic antiheroine broken by her fame. Kim Kardashian is a shrewd businesswoman who uses her sexuality to challenge the patriarchy. Caitlyn Jenner is a brave LGBTQ activist.

We celebrate these women for being “difficult” and “complicated,” and we rewrite their narratives in a feminist light.

Modern marriage is a massive industry with sexist origins.

Love it or hate it, at one point you’ll reach the age when all your friends are getting married.

For Jia and her partner Andrew, this point came nine years ago – and hasn’t ended since. The couple has been invited to no fewer than 49 weddings.

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Trick Mirror (2019) is the long-awaited first collection of writer and essayist Jia Tolentino. In nine intertwined stories, she tells of the trends and ideas – as well as the personal and collective delusions – that have shaped her life, our country, and the culture. Examining everything from the internet to workout crazes to modern marriage, Tolentino interweaves the personal and political, calling to mind great feminist writers like Susan Sontag and Joan Didion.

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[T]he Internet brings the I into everything.

—Jia Tolentino

Wer Trick Mirror lesen sollte

Critical thinkers with an affinity for dissecting cultural trends
Lefties and liberals – and those who want to understand them better
Anyone who claims the label “feminist”

Über den Autor

Jia Tolentino is a writer and editor. After studying at the University of Virginia, she served with the Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan and received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. She has previously worked as an editor for feminist media outlets Jezebel and Hairpin, and is now a staff writer at the New Yorker.

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