“Did You Read the Book”

"the whole process of commodifying personhood to sell movie tickets is inherently dehumanizing. The TV people want some part of you, and in exchange for it, they will put the name of your movie on TV. But in that process, you do lose something of your self. (For the record, I don’t get the feeling that the journalists asking the same questions over and over particularly savor the experience, either. But they need their sit-down interview, and we need our publicity, and so the wheel spins on.)...

Cara Delevingne doesn’t exist to feed your narrative or your news feed — and that’s precisely why she’s so fucking interesting."
https://medium.com/@johngreen/but-did-you-read-the-book-2e2dad0ebab1

Posting this because there's this thing where I totally recognize the emotions Cara is having, but obviously translated into my regular life when regular randos are asking me regular questions.

I sort of want #DidYouReadTheBook to be made into a hashtag about the lazy and commodifying ways we interact with each other, looking for that one specific story and responding with irritation to anything outside of it. It's that thing where someone asks "What are you?", or even the everyday assimilation of "Howareyou?" "I'mGood" and then pretending this makes us friends. Pretending we have an understanding of each other's realities.

I mean, doesn't it say something that it's rude to give an honest answer to "How are you" - when was the last time your answer was longer than a sentence?

Related: "Cara Delevingne Responds To Awkward Interview”