August 2014
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To Thine Own Selfie Be True
On Christmas Day in 2006, Time magazine published its annual "Person of the Year" issue, with a strange twist: they didn't actually select a person. Instead, the cover featured a photo of a computer, on top of which lay a small, reflective paper rectangle—a makeshift mirror floating above a single, captivating word: You.
Nodding to the then newly minted capacity to customize one's online presence, this comparatively brazen editorial conceit perfectly captured a sense of where things appeared to be heading. American culture stood at that moment on the precipice of a new, self-obsessed democracy: for the people and by the people—and photographed by the people, too. With that seminal issue, we were told to get ready for our close-up, and get ready we did.
We took the bait, eager to recalibrate a kind of carpe diem for this, our brave new world. Over the…
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"the act of blaming someone for a problem instead of trying to fix or solve it"
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