![]() Your reflection is not you, but it’s the only version of yourself you’ll ever see. I felt the same thing watching the show that I do when I’m on the train in New York, scrolling through Twitter, thinking on the one hand: Where are we underneath all of this arbitrary self-importance? And on the other: Aren’t we all exactly as we seem?” ![]() This was useful, if dubious, preparation for a life wrapped up with the internet. “Reality TV simultaneously freed me from and tethered me to self-consciousness by making self-consciousness inextricable from everything else. ![]() In her essay reflecting on her experience, Tolentino writes: Perhaps the most striking passage from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion is from the essay “Reality TV Me,” where essayist Jia Tolentino recounts the time she was on a reality TV show when she was 16. ![]()
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