Our Crowded Mirrors

Like a funhouse mirror, popular culture always offers a reflection of society, exaggerated and distorted but real. 

Case in point: the surprising number of commercials that feature people conversing with multiple versions of themselves. Nobody else is there. 

It’s Madison Avenue’s perfect symbolic representation of this increasingly narcissistic “selfie” society.

Mark Staff Brandl said, “I never considered that. Good observation. The ultimate Ayn Randian, neolib breakdown of society.”

I replied, “Bingo! With everybody tracing the sign of the dollar in the night sky.”