Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion

"Increasingly, I feel like the Internet grew up way too quickly and matured into something our society still hasn’t made sense of yet. The World Wide Web sometimes seems as if it controls us now, not the other way around. It makes us angry, exhausted, tells us what we should be thinking or doing and often knows what we want before we do. Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror arrives in the midst of my existential angst over all this. Pitched as personal essays, reflections on Tolentino’s own self-delusion, it’s so much more. It’s a guidebook for dealing with an Internet gone wild. Though she often has just as many questions about the corrosive nature of Internet and its intersection with late-stage capitalism, Trick Mirror let me know I’m not alone in my feelings. And that feels pretty good."