Ron Collins
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

a performing actor

Every time I see one of those nauseating group selfies, where two or more people with big contrived smiles looking like commercials for a dentist’s office, lean back away from somebody’s stupid-phone and try to show what an absolutely fabulous time they’re having, I just assume that the people in the shot can probably barely stand each other, and that all the relationships illustrated in the frame are so polluted with distrust and gossip and grudge-holding that the one thing they are able to achieve together, is to lean back and smile like lobotomized mental patients, and act the part for as long as it takes for the shutter to click.

I take the whole phenomenon of self-promotion on social media, as a logical outcome of generations of grandiose propaganda and advertising, both illustrating falsehoods so transparently false as to be laughable at a glance, and yet each seems to have penetrated so deeply into how a seeming majority of people have come to view reality, that now given the tools to be advertising and propagandizing about themselves continually, they just becomes junkies to the activity, just like any other form of junkie, as if nothing else mattered.

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