Older people still seem to have a great belief and trust in the power of the doctor: consulting frequently and asking for reassurance. Huxley’s Brave New World of ‘a pill for every ill’ came alive. A system was set up that inadvertently produced somatisation of distress, and the medical model of symptom removal without understanding began to grow and pervade our society. The link wasn’t made between bodily symptoms and distress because there were free pills to take away the pain. This promise was seductive to a generation who had experienced profound distress, impoverishment, and loss. Then came the birth of the NHS and the promise of care for all who had illnesses and symptoms. They experienced the Second World War and probably failed to process this emotionally, as they ‘all went through it together’. 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.Older people of >80 years have lived through an interesting time. 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.
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. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives.
Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. A breakout writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity - for readers who've wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.
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