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How we all became a brand

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Reality in Self-Creation

Two characters in the book speak to this exquisitely, if not depressingly. They are Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump. You even call Kardashian the apex of the nihilistic aristocratic tradition. What does someone like a Kardashian or Trump represent in this story?

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