One astonishing picture of Hillary Clinton shows who and what we've become

Cnet.com ^ | September 25, 2016 | Chris Matyszczyk

[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.

[2CAVTrooper]

Forklift?

[Big Red Badger]

Ah,

No.

[Yaelle]

I don’t want selfies. I may be the only one.

[Ken H]

I can’t remember EVER taking a “selfie” - am I alone in this?

The broken cameras got too expensive..

[maggief]

Anyone notice she’s on her tiptoes?

[FlingWingFlyer]

That is retarded. A bunch of useless people taking pictures of themselves to make their friends think that they are important. That’s sicker than Clintoon herself.

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL.

[zencycler]

I can’t remember EVER taking a “selfie” - am I alone in this?

Well there was that one time that I made a photocopy of my butt ... does that count?

[grey_whiskers]

Looking at that photo, only *one* thing comes to mind:

[ETL]

The compulsive, ego-centric selfie culture is sad indeed.

At Nelson Mandela's funeral!

[Carriage Hill]

I have a dumbed-down, flip phone that has all superfluous functions disabled, except make/receive calls. Never even thought about taking one of those idiot things, either.

[umgud]

Wouldn’t surprise me.

[Carriage Hill]

At least that.
Pretty damned sad, actually.

[ConservativeStatement]

The Narcissist Generation.

[Carriage Hill]

All that narcissism, in one room, is wearisome.

[norton]

I'd speculate that;
that's not Hillary,
it's a hired crowd,
it's a hired location,
And,
if they actually pushed the button they'd get nice shots of their face and faux Hillary's feet.

[chris37]

What I see here is a bunch of dumb chicks aiming their phones at the dumbest chick of them all for a selfie.

I’m rooting for Glowbull Warming now.

Species needs ending.

[Squantos]

Put her dizzy butt on a taller toad stool so when, not if, she falls next time it’ll be terminal. Really tired of that cunning runt and her rants in ole crusty pants ......

[Nuc 1.1]

You are not alone. A disgusting scene isn’t it?

[KarlInOhio]

With the new Perseus2016 app, you too can keep your eye on Hillary without the usual side effects.

(Oops, I hope I don't get threatened with a Secret Service visit for that mythological allusion)