'I’ve been burnt out from the internet since 2014.' jiatolentino discusses her new book, what motivates her to work, and more:
about growing up Christian in Houston and eventually replacing Jesus with MDMA; lean, the recreational name for codeine cough syrup; and the Houston-bred musical style chopped and screwed. Another piece tackles the economy of marriage and its intrinsic relationship with capitalism and male power, while the opening essay “The I in the Internet,” explores the predawn of the World Wide Web.
I like to write about things that are difficult to write about for whatever reason. I think that is one of the reasons why I write about sexual assault, and why I write about the internet. It’s one of these things that require a lot of precision and tonal awareness to write about well, and I think memes are one of them, because as soon as you write about something that is funny on the internet, you kill it. I think that it is really hard to write about something and not kill it.
Yeah, it’s a nightmare. But don’t we feel burnt out by all of the systems that we’re trapped in? That’s kind of why I’m so surprised by people reading this book, because the book is about this feeling, and I think that’s a hard feeling. I am amazed that people are ready to be pummeled by all of this at once, when we already are pummeled by [this feeling] all the time in life.
I don’t know how healthy this is: My reaction to being burnt out is like, We gotta go straight through it. We can’t live like this; we simply cannot. I think that’s part of why I’ve been trying to write straight into the shit.I was talking to some of my Peace Corps friends last night about this because we spent so much time in Peace Corps talking about systems, attractability, and ourselves.
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