If this quote, Instagrammed Wednesday by one Britney Jean Spears, makes it seem like our favorite smiler bought a cultural studies textbook and started playing telephone with herself in the privacy of her own consciousness, that’s because that’s exactly what she’s doing.
...this is not a Luddite’s diatribe against the digital age. what i am making a plea for is a return to internalizing experiences instead of treating all of life as a performance in search of an audience. rather than take cues from kim kardashian, we might cast our eyes back to the late lauren bacall who cultivated an air of mystery on and off the screen. if we emulated bacall, the radical way we live today would be as if no-one were watching. who knows, that glamour of anonymity might make a comeback, if we pause and put our damn phones down.