Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

by Jia Tolentino

Throughout this period, I found that I could hardly trust anything that I was thinking. A doubt that always hovers in the back of my mind intensified: that whatever conclusions I might reach about myself, my life, and my environment are just as likely to be diametrically wrong as they are to be right.

a “trick mirror that carries the illusion of flawlessness as well as the self-flagellating option of constantly finding fault.”