Selfie

how we became so self-obsessed and what it's doing to us

403 pages

English language

Published March 1, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-4683-1589-9
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OCLC Number:
1028640709

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We live in an age of perfectionism. Every day, we're bombarded with the beautiful, successful, slim, socially-conscious and extroverted individual that our culture has decided is the perfect self. We see this person constantly in shop windows, in newspapers, on the television, at the movies and all over our social media. We berate ourselves when we don't match up to them--when we're too fat, too old, too poor, or too sad. This cycle can be extremely bad for us. In recent years, psychologists have even begun to think that many people take their own lives because of the impossible standards that are set for who they ought to be. Will Storr began to wonder about this perfect self that torments so many of us. Who, actually, is this person? Why does it hold such power over us? Could it be humanity's deadliest idea? And, if so, is there any way …

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Subjects

  • Anthropology
  • Self-perception
  • Self
  • Sociology
  • History