While the Internet was meant to allow you to reach out to any- and
everyone without a hint of the cruel discriminations that blight our
world, it turned into the opposite, a forum where individuals are less
speaking to other people than preening and listening to
themselves -- turning themselves into desirable objects to be coveted by
all. It became, that is, the perfect embodiment of consumer
capitalism, where everything can be touted in the marketplace.
-- Jacqueline
Rose. "
Song
of My Self-Care",
New York Review of Books (October 10, 2019 Issue). Review of
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino. Random House (2019).