Portrait of Catharina Behaghel by Jacob Jordaens holding an iPhone for a selfie. The National Gallery of CopenhagenSelfie. What an ugly word.
The self is the one thing we need to keep in check. And in 2016 (maybe 2015), the word selfie was added in the latest edition of Oxford Dictionary.
Deep. Deep times.
The past couple of years, the “love of self appearance” craze welcomed many deaths of young people trying to capture the perfect shot, it also welcomed severe depression and narcissism to name a few mental illnesses.
Empowerment is achieved through putting a handle on the self, the self which is often doubtful, fearful, distracted, beastial and irrational – you don’t want that part of the self (the baseline self) to be ruling you, it’s ruling is no good for you.
Nor anyone around you. ?
