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Oft-encountered #12 – alas (#21 in series of single-image south India teasers)

 

 

Pictured above is yet another example of the most commonly-witnessed symptom/expression of our global “narcissism pandemic”.

It shows perhaps the most inane, virulent – and characteristic – form of “early 21st century” human behaviour.

Why bother to pay attention to any of the world’s wonders when you could, instead, go one worse than perpetually-peering into a mirror?

An overused mirror is still blessedly “private”.

The “selfie”, however, is uber-“public”; the inattentive thereby impose their shallow selves upon anything/everything, anywhere.

Having taken yet another selfie, one can then “generously” – yet again – inflict the always-banal result upon one’s “friends”.

The photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken from the shoreline of Vembanad Lake, Kerala, at 7.23 pm on 21 February 2023.

This single-image series’ final instalment will feature a photo taken just a few footsteps away, a couple of minutes later.

It will show you one of very many beautiful, clearly-visible things to which the selfie-taker was self-evidently oblivious.

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