
Selfie
How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us
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Narrado por:
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Jack Hawkins
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De:
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Will Storr
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We live in the age of the individual.
We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our culture's image of the perfect self. We see this person everywhere: in advertising, in the press, all over social media. We're told that to be this person, you just have to follow your dreams, that our potential is limitless, that we are the source of our own success.
But this model of the perfect self can be extremely dangerous. People are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy. Unprecedented social pressure is leading to increases in depression and suicide. Where does this ideal come from? Why is it so powerful? Is there any way to break its spell?
To answer these questions, Selfie takes us from the shores of Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, to the self-esteem evangelists of 1980s California, the rise of narcissism and the selfie generation, and right up to the era of hyperindividualistic neoliberalism in which we live now.
It tells the extraordinary story of the person we all know so intimately - our self.
Exclusive to the audiobook, Selfie includes a unique 15-minute interview with the author, Will Storr, and reader, Jack Hawkins.
©2017 Will Storr (P)2017 Macmillan Digital AudioReseñas de la Crítica
Absolutely reassuring
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History book of individual human
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It was interesting to hear that the author is is a high neurotic personality type like myself and learning about this through his experiences and views helped me tremendously. The narrator is also fantastic.
Highly recommended book
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I think 95% of the people buying this would think, based on the title, that this is book is about the digital era, but it only touches on that after 8 hours, and then just briefly.
There's some interesting parts, but I found it long and winding and not really going anywhere.
As I said, the title really hurts the book, because it's pretty much clickbait.
Wrong title
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