Why do a Selfie if it can be done.
Why Do a Selfie If It Can Be done.
What does a selfie do.
I have refused them so often and left them out so much and did without them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferent to them. …
As I say selfies are servile and they have no life of their own, and their use is not a use, it is a way of replacing one’s interest and I do decidedly like to like my own interest my own interest in what I am doing. A selfie by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years and I still do feel that way about it only now I do not pay as much attention to them, the use of them was positively degrading. Let me tell you what I feel and what I mean and what I felt and what I meant.
Full disclosure: Gertrude’s comments on a word from 2013 were inspired by at least two things: “AND THE WORD OF THE YEAR IS… SELFIE” IN THE NEW YORKER
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/selfie-word-of-the-year.html
AND inspired by Joseph Mackin in 2Paragraphs:
http://2paragraphs.com/2013/11/the-selfie-of-alice-b-toklas/