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5 years, 11 months ago

reintroduced me to the world of American abundance

This period, around 2011, reintroduced me to the world of American abundance. The first time I went into a grocery store and saw how many different fruits there were, I cried. At these yoga classes, I marveled at the fanatic high functionality of the women around me. They carried red totes covered …

—p.70 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Always Be Optimizing (63) by Jia Tolentino
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the milky stars emerged and disappeared

We took the boat out on a black night, in an anvil-heavy quiet. Behind the moving masses of clouds, the milky stars emerged and disappeared. We were all nervous, hushed, agitated: we had all come from families who, I think, wanted to give us adventures like this, but who probably wouldn’t have been…

—p.54 Reality TV Me (34) by Jia Tolentino
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I’ve always felt that I was special project/panopticon

It seemed likely that I’d been making this error more generally. For most of my life I’ve believed, without really articulating it, that strange things just drop into my lap—that, especially because I can’t really think unless I’m writing, I’m some sort of blank-brained innocent who has repeatedly …

—p.38 Reality TV Me (34) by Jia Tolentino
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other forms of self-actualization

Here was the opposition principle in action. Through identifying the effects of women’s systemic objectification as some sort of vagina-supremacist witchcraft, the men that congregated on 4chan gained an identity, and a useful common enemy. Many of these men had, likely, experienced consequences re…

—p.24 The I in the Internet (3) by Jia Tolentino
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interstice

The internet has moved seamlessly into the interstices of this situation, redistributing our minimum of free time into unsatisfying micro-installments

—p.18 by Anna Wiener
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