Going Deep with Jia Tolentino on Finding Truth in a Manipulative World
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Kelly talks with New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino about identity, culture and the irresistable manipulation of the internet. Jia is a 32-year old intellectual phenom who just came out with her first book of essays called Trick Mirror. She's part feminist, part radical thinker and part cultural critic, and she has a lot to say about what it means to be human in today's world. (Previously aired)
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the internet takes really basic intrinsic desires like to be seen to be heard to find some sort of connection to other people |
| 0:08.3 | These incredibly basic social desires have become exploited in ways that a lot of us understand but can't necessarily |
| 0:16.8 | see the extent of on an everyday basis. |
| 0:19.1 | Hey, this is Kelly Corrigan. Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I am so psyched today. I have a woman |
| 0:28.7 | named Gia Tolantino with me in conversation. If you haven't heard of her you will. She's a 32 year old |
| 0:35.0 | intellectual phenom. She writes for the New Yorker and came out with her first book of essays called |
| 0:39.9 | Trick Mirror. She's part feminist and part radical thinker and part |
| 0:44.7 | cultural critic. I learned of her from my husband and when he was reading |
| 0:48.4 | Trick mirror he kept poking me in the shoulder and saying wait wait wait you got |
| 0:51.9 | to hear this we'll be right back with Gia Tolantino. |
| 0:54.7 | This is Kelly Corrigan. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm here today with Gia Tolantino. |
| 1:12.0 | She's a writer for the New Yorker. She's whip smart and her book |
| 1:15.2 | trick mirror is very high on my list of recommended reading. Hi, how are you? How are you? Good, how are you? Good, how are you? Good, I'm really glad to meet you. So you have talked a lot about like deep fundamental changes in society and also in yourself that you've observed in yourself and that made you somebody that I wanted to talk to about human nature. |
| 1:42.0 | So I'm wondering about the relationship between |
| 1:45.1 | environment and an individual and how those two things drive change and |
| 1:49.6 | like kind of who's in charge of how people change? |
| 1:52.5 | Are we in charge of it or is the environment just pushing us around? |
| 1:55.6 | I was just rereading an Atlantic article |
| 2:00.4 | about those children that were left in Romanian orphanages in the 80s where it's like an |
| 2:06.1 | estimated that 170,000 infants and children had been consigned to these orphanages. They had been left to feed themselves in in cages basically. Like they would get a bottle propped between the bars. They had no human contact for almost their entire lives and |
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