— Jia TolentinoThe everyday madness perpetuated by the internet is the madness of this architecture, which positions personal identity as the center of the universe. It’s as if we’ve been placed on a lookout that oversees the entire world and given a pair of binoculars that makes everything look like our own reflection. Through social media, many people have quickly come to view all new information as a sort of direct commentary on who they are
Replicated under Fair Use from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino.