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- Why are we willing to risk plane crashes to get a good selfie? It’s not just plain vanity or stupidity. We’re drunk on an existential power trip.
The wealthy have always maintained our cultural image over the centuries. But as technology has improved, so too has everyone’s ability to create images of themselves. Selfies have gone from a once elite art-form to the most mainstream, mass-produced art that has ever existed.
And while a selfie might seem a little narcissistic at first glance, after a quick trot through the history of the self-portrait, it’s as clear as an Instagram filter that selfies are among the greatest forms of democratized art ever created. So go ahead. Take a new selfie.