Photographing for likes. Has the world come to this? Everyone is a photographer, and photographs are manufactured voluntarily by the thousands per second, streamed instantaneously to handheld devices around the world. We've seen everything there is to be seen. We've seen beauty in abundance. We've seen torrents of cruelty. We've seen gross excesses. We've seen notoriety. And we've seen nothing of consequence. We've seen more than we need to see, and so we've become desensitized. Nothing moves us, and nothing shocks us. We've seen it all with the swipe of a thumb.
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