Jia Tolentino

They're nice people, really good families. And what people in the South mean when they say that is like they're rich and they keep their shit under wraps.

They're nice people, really good families. And what people in the South mean when they say that is like they're rich and they keep their shit under wraps.

Like they're rich and they successfully repress any outer sign of disorder. That's literally all people mean.

Like they're rich and they successfully repress any outer sign of disorder. That's literally all people mean.

There's something interesting about while I don't doubt that Jacqueline and Laurie, you know, or whatever, variously sincere, progressive, liberal, however they consider themselves.

There's something interesting about while I don't doubt that Jacqueline and Laurie, you know, or whatever, variously sincere, progressive, liberal, however they consider themselves.

But it is something that I feel quite aware of in my everyday life where there are plenty of people in my orbit who think of liberal or progressive politics mostly as kind of a consumer identity who were really offended by Trump mostly as an aesthetic signal about like, like, this is just embarrassing. Like...

But it is something that I feel quite aware of in my everyday life where there are plenty of people in my orbit who think of liberal or progressive politics mostly as kind of a consumer identity who were really offended by Trump mostly as an aesthetic signal about like, like, this is just embarrassing. Like...

There's a way in which Kate having voted for Trump is on an equal plane in terms of moral and aesthetic importance as kind of not having a really good doctor for your Botox, right? Like they have the—they are appalled as if they are talking about a serious political topic, but there's a way in which it's sort of like, ooh, you know, you've made a lifestyle choice. You've made an aesthetic choice.

There's a way in which Kate having voted for Trump is on an equal plane in terms of moral and aesthetic importance as kind of not having a really good doctor for your Botox, right? Like they have the—they are appalled as if they are talking about a serious political topic, but there's a way in which it's sort of like, ooh, you know, you've made a lifestyle choice. You've made an aesthetic choice.

Right. And there was that part in the first episode where Laurie's like looking at you guys, it's like looking at a mirror. And there's something interesting about what this crew will not do, which is like probably they are all living extremely similar lives with extremely similar consumer choices, you know, etc. But the exact same life.

Right. And there was that part in the first episode where Laurie's like looking at you guys, it's like looking at a mirror. And there's something interesting about what this crew will not do, which is like probably they are all living extremely similar lives with extremely similar consumer choices, you know, etc. But the exact same life.

If the person voted for Trump, that life will then be viewed as sort of like immoral and false.

If the person voted for Trump, that life will then be viewed as sort of like immoral and false.

But yet I'm sure those women are making quite similar choices about their children, their children's schooling, how much they fly on planes, whatever. You know, their degree of civic engagement. And that, you know, I don't know. I doubt a lot of that will reach the surface. But I was like, ooh, I can feel it.

But yet I'm sure those women are making quite similar choices about their children, their children's schooling, how much they fly on planes, whatever. You know, their degree of civic engagement. And that, you know, I don't know. I doubt a lot of that will reach the surface. But I was like, ooh, I can feel it.

That they exactly make, yeah. So the themes really come out. The themes being the snake in the Garden of Paradise or whatever with Chelsea and Rick.

That they exactly make, yeah. So the themes really come out. The themes being the snake in the Garden of Paradise or whatever with Chelsea and Rick.

But the snake show is also prompted by another meditation session.

But the snake show is also prompted by another meditation session.