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I suspect that if commissioning an artist to make portraits of any size was as cheap and easy as taking a selfie or eating junk food, we'd be balls-deep in port
by icanhackit 9y ago
I suspect that if commissioning an artist to make portraits of any size was as cheap and easy as taking a selfie or eating junk food, we'd be balls-deep in portraits right now. Cost & effort vs value.
The implication being that narcissism is nothing new or changing in prevalence, we just need to discourage its more overt forms so that we have a healthy and thoughtful population.
- mcphage 9y ago> we just need to discourage its more overt forms I think we've done a pretty good job about this, what we're left with is people taking pictures of themselves costing $0, and perhaps posting them on free sites for people who want to view & share such things. That's just about as out-of-your-face as you can get.
- icanhackit 9y agoOvert meaning publishing our narcissism uncensored, rather than acknowledging that we're naturally concerned with our outward appearance and status but see the value in balancing it with some modesty lest life become a silopsist shitshow. You could argue that a painting, while expensive, is less overt in a spatial sense than making images of yourself available to practically any person in any location at any time. It's multi-dimensional vanity repeated ad nauseam because it costs practically nothing. Paintings are limited to specific times and locations in space-time.