![]() ![]() She argues persuasively that we should “care less about our identities” online and become “deeply skeptical of our own unbearable opinions”. Her thoughts touch on virtue signalling, Gamergate, the #MeToo movement, and trolling. The first essay is on the internet and its effects on our identity, how it inflates our opinions and our sense of self-importance. ![]() Often the sparring dialectic in evidence here pairs Tolentino’s current self in a duel with her youthful (mis)understandings experience leads to a rigorously bracing self-interrogation. This assault, as Tolentino neatly has it, is “blitzing our frayed neurons in huge waves of information that pummel us”. Subtitled ‘Reflections on Self-Delusion’, Jia Tolentino’s terrific selection of essays gleans much-needed sense out of the daily distortions and conflicted opinion that emanate from our mass media outlets. ![]()
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