KNOWING ME, KNOWING ME
What do the rapid rise in cosmetic surgery procedures, people projecting their own mundanity all over Instagram, and a new nationalism based on personal superiority over solidarity have in common? They’re all symptoms of the Narcissism Epidemic: a vast rise in the number of people having unfoundedly positive, shamefully inflated views of themselves. But nothing more embodies the toxic vanity hogging the zeitgeist than the selfie — at the last count, around 93 million of which are now posted on the internet, for no one’s gratification bar the poster, each and every day.
“Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.” - Jean Cocteau
Is it just me who thinks capturing an image of oneself standing beside
