Selfie deaths have become an emerging problem. A new study says the worldwide increase in mobile phone usage has led to an “exponential increase” in the number of selfie-related deaths — dubbed “selficides” — in recent years. Researchers found that a vast majority of deaths occurred due to the victims engaging in risky behavior while attempting to take the perfect snapshot.
From October 2011 to November 2017, there have been 259 deaths while clicking selfies in 137 incidents. The mean age was 22.94 years. About 72.5% of the total deaths occurred in males and 27.5% in females. The highest number of incidents and selfie-deaths has been reported in India followed by Russia, United States, and Pakistan. Drowning, transport, and fall form the topmost reasons for deaths caused by selfies. We also classified reasons for deaths due to selfie as risky behavior or non-risky behavior. Risky behavior caused more deaths and incidents due to selfies than non-risky behavior. The number of deaths in females is less due to risky behavior than non-risky behavior while it is approximately three times in males.
The study titled, “Selfies: A boon or bane?” was published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, and led by Dr. Agam Bansal from the India Institute of Medical Sciences.
The greatest cause of selfie death was drowning, which is how 70 victims perished. Deaths related to transport — like running in front of a moving train while trying to snap a photo — were linked to 51 cases. Falls and fire-related deaths were tied at 48 each.
Applied Darwinism is all.
Coupled, of course, with narcissism, as in excessive interest in oneself and one’s physical appearance, with such synonyms as vanity, self-love, self-admiration, self-absorption, self-obsession, conceit, self-centeredness, self-regard, egotism, and egoism, or as it is put in the field of psychology, extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one’s own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type, or in psychoanalysis as self-centeredness arising from failure to distinguish the self from external objects, which seems to underlie the need for all these selfies, so these people can see if they really exist or not.
And that brings back to mind from my grade school days in a different century the cautionary Greek myth of Narcissus, who was a hunter in Greek mythology, son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope, who was a very beautiful young man, sort of like CNN’s Chris Cuomo today, and like Chris Cuomo today, as a result, many fell in love with him.
However, like Chris Cuomo with poor Kellyanne Conway, who we learned in the Marketwatch story “Kellyanne Conway tells CNN that she was sexually assaulted” by Shawn Langlois published Oct 1, 2018 in a sexual assault survivor herself, Narcissus only showed them disdain and contempt, so that he only showed them disdain and contempt.
Anyway, one day, while Narcissus was hunting in the woods, the Oread nymph Echo spotted him and immediately fell for him, much the way Gwyneth Paltrow was said to immediately fall for Obama, who she thought was so handsome she could hardly speak.
Getting back to Narcissus, when he sensed that someone was following him, Echo eventually revealed herself and tried to hug him, but like Chris Cuopmo with sexual assault survivor Kellyanne Conway, he pushed her off and told her not to disturb him so that Echo, in despair, roamed around the woods for the rest of her life, and wilted away until all it remained of her was an echo sound.
Thereafter, and this is the moral of that tale that I was taught, Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and revenge, learned what had happened and decided to punish Narcissus for his behavior, so she led him to a pool and there, the man saw his reflection in the water and fell in love with it.
Although he did not realise in the beginning that it was just a reflection, when he understood it, he fell in despair that his love could not materialise and committed suicide, which today would probably called selfie-cide.
As to Chris Cuomo’s decidedly rough on-air treatment of Kellyanne, that story is more than adequately told in the HuffPost article “Kellyanne Conway Threatens To Walk Off After Fiery Exchange With Chris Cuomo – The White House counselor and CNN host got testy with each other over Brett Kavanaugh.” by Ed Mazza on 09/21/2018, as follows:
CNN’s Chris Cuomo and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway had another fiery verbal sparring session on Thursday as the two went toe-to-toe over Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
CONWAY: “You just think you can talk over me, I’ll walk away.”
“You guys begged me to come on and then you want to interrupt me.”
CUOMO: “As I’ve said many times, you’re always welcome to come on, but I have to stop you and check what you put out there.”
CONWAY: “No no no!”
“I didn’t say ― nothing came out of my mouth yet.”
“You’re just talking.”
CUOMO: “Lot of noise coming for nothing coming out of your mouth.”
“I heard something.”
CONWAY: “I can leave.”
“I can leave and we can watch him get confirmed next week.”
“Are you ready for that?”
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Now tell me, Ray Otton, and I am turning to you here because you are a gentleman – wasn’t that more than a little overboard on the part of pretty boy Chris Cuomo?
Is that any way to treat a lady, especially a sexual assault survivor like Kellyanne, who harrowing tale was told by Marketwatch as follows:
“I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment and rape.”
“I’m a victim of sexual assault.”
That’s White House adviser Kellyanne Conway opening up on Sunday to CNN’s Jake Tapper during a conversation in which she defended the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Tapper, after saying he was “deeply, personally very sorry,” then pointed out that Conway’s boss, President Donald Trump, has been the target in multiple sexual-assault allegations and has said that those women lied about them.
“Don’t conflate that with this, and certainly don’t conflate that with what happened to me,” she fired back at Tapper.
“I work for President Trump because he’s so good to the women who work for him.”
“So, I don’t want to hear it.”
Conway added that women making these allegations should go through the criminal justice system rather than letting them play out in such a partisan spectacle.
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Now, is that a profile in courage right there?
Or what?
Actually, after this week’s show in the senate gallery, I think we’re seeing applied Darwinism with Liberals.
I mean, would you willingly mate with one of ’em?
Good God, NO!