‘Selfie’ has been named ‘Word of the Year’ by the Oxford Dictionary, an award that underscores the notion that we’re fast becoming a wired-up, dumbed-down society of egomaniacs.
(Warning: The writer of this article has fuzzy recollections of a ‘golden age’ of rotary dial phones, vinyl records and fax machines, when human behavior was not determined by the available technology). Continue reading “Pleasure principle: Our selfie-obsessed lifestyles twerking against us”