Set your strobe apps to STUN...3..2..1 NOW!
Posted on 09/25/2016 7:59:09 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
Dear famous person,
If we want to be seen with you, we'll turn our backs on you.
Please don't be offended.
It's just that your fame isn't enough for us anymore.
We need to attach ourselves to your fame, so that we can post the resulting picture to Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.
That way, we achieve our own sort of mini-fame. Which could be the maximal fame we ever attain.
Please forgive me for this missive to the stars.
There's a reason: this astounding picture posted on Sunday to Twitter by Hillary For America design lead Victor Ng. He credited the shot to the photographer currently working on the Clinton campaign, Barbara Kinney.
As Hillary Clinton stands on a podium and waves, not one of the throng in front of her seems to be facing her.
Instead, everyone has turned their backs and raised their phones in order to get a little of themselves -- perhaps just their hair or their upper forehead -- into the shot.
Ng offered this caption: "2016, ya'll."
One can surely forgive him for misplacing his apostrophe, as he gazed upon this human catastrophe.
Increasingly we prefer to be seen with each other, instead of looking at each other.
We live not to be there, but to be seen to be there.
So, dear famous person, please understand that it's all a show now. All of it.
This might be especially worth remembering should you be taking part in some sort of debate in the near future.
She aimed the camera by looking into the lens and out of the viewfinder, and snapped a “selfie” of her looking down at the camera.
So now life is a string of facebook pics, instead of developing strength, morality, and character for the next world of life, learning to love as God does, the focus today is on filling the facebook page..truely sad.
Maybe they are doing the hokie-pokie.
Totally thought they were taking pictures of things in the back of the room...
I disappoint my fellow millennials, or something...
Set your strobe apps to STUN...3..2..1 NOW!
Congratulations, Flycatcher! That is one of the great accomplishments, which, I imagine, demanded the fullest efforts and greatest stretch of every aspect of your being. May you be safe on your next climb. Your tagline is lovely.
Who is this “we” the author talks about?
It is.
I have very fast, industrial-grade Win-7 Pro desktops at home.
I don’t need or want smartphone crap.
Just as I don’t participate in Fakebook, Tweety or any of that garbage.
Neither; gave them up for Lent in 1989.
Really not a big deal unfortunately. They’re all trying to get selfies. It’s 2016 indeed.
EGOTISTICAL TWITS
YOU are not alone. It’s more than likely YOU don’t remember doing so,because, like you, there are many of us who have NEVER done so. And we never plan to do so. A selfie is just another form of masturbation.
How many of those 1800 retweets are by ‘bot accounts on twitter?
Congratulations on your successful ascent of Mt/ Whitney.
That is not an easy hike, no sirree.
14,495 feet. It’s seared into my memory!
So it looks like the point is that if you take a pic from the front, it will appear that Hillary is in the crowd without actually being in the crowd.
Yep. Also, they seem to be all young WHITE chicks — little tony suburban princesses. Interesting angle to the shot, too — maybe to fudge the amount of women there?
But then, I’m cynical.
It took about 7.5 hours to get to the top and we took very few breaks. We stayed at the snowy summit (in mid-July, mind you) for about an hour and cracked open a can of beer to celebrate. My favorite part was being surrounded by all the gray-crowned rosy-finches that live up in this high elevation. They almost eat out of your hand!
It took only 5.5 hours hours to get down and we were moving fast. Total hike was 22 miles round trip, with an ascent of 6,000 ft on those first 11 miles.
Glad I did it but I'll never do it again. That item on my bucket list is now checked. (Funny thing is, before I went, it was never on my bucket list!)
The OTHER half of us are adorable!
Hey!
That thing I posted on the other thread was supposed to be a JOKE!
And we are left to support the cowbirds that hatch in the nest!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbird
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