Even our transparency, our “authenticity,” is a posture. We show what we want to show. I think, for instance, of the social platform Instagram. Apparently everybody lives in a golden field, in a renovated farmhouse whitewashed with organic paint and decorated with bowls of ripe fruit positioned just so. The children all wear adorable galoshes, the men flannel, the women paisley sundresses they have made themselves from fabric bought down at the ol’ mercantile “in town.” When they’re not taking pictures of their permanently vintage-filter family (#blessed), they are posting inspirational quote
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