What’s in a Selfie?

Charles Lincon
3 min readOct 23, 2020

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The question of what’s in a selfie is different in the sense of trying to determine whether the externalization of the person is really sufficiently found in the selfie.

Photographic self-portrait by Robert Cornelius, 1839 Source Wikipedia. I claim no ownership of this photograph.

It is a sort of becoming in the history of one’s consciousness. It allows for meditation and the spirit to be emptied out into time but at the same time does externalization is sort of a kenosis.

Selfie taken on the Metro underground © Charlie Lincoln

Perhaps memories of Arizona would include the Grand Canyon or driving on the streets, but is that wasn’t meant to be imported by a photo or the flag of Arizona. Likewise does a selfie really convey everything that we wanted?
Becoming a person presents a slow moving succession of one’s image. Endowed with all the riches of the Spirit that are in your twined with the selfie one can slowly just become the self that they wanted to be. The selfie allows you to digest the entire wealth of the individual self substance. Fulfilling what is known and consisted by knowing in the substance of a selfie is what abandons its outer existence and gives us existential shape over to recollection. Thus absorbed in itself the selfie is sunk into the night of self-consciousness.

The inwardizingof that experience is preserved through the inter being of the selfie. The higher form of substance that is to say. And although this selfie starts freshly and apparently from its own resources to bring itself out of maturity it is nonetheless higher than when I initially started.

The goal of revelation in the selfie is the absolute notion of the selfie.

Just like in Hegelian thinking when Consciousness becomes externalized went understanding it outside object, if he comes in or dies to win recollected. So likewise when the selfie becomes external when I understanding itself, it becomes and we’re dies when it is recollected and viewed.

Why does consciousness become external? Because of the desire of self consciousness to retain the external object.

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV

Speaking of law. Did you know at my law school graduation I got an award for the most pro bono hours completed of any student? It was an honor and I am truly thankful for the mentorship and opportunity. Rosalind Jeffers was an excellent mentor and teacher. I’m honored she surprised me with this award. “The Equal Justice Award was presented to Charles Lincoln [Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV ] as the graduate who has performed pro bono legal services in an extraordinary way and contributed the greatest number of hours of public service pro bono work with 674.5 hours, exemplifying the Aggie core value of selfless service. Lincoln has worked with Catholic Charities, the Texas 13th Court of Appeals, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffery Manske of the Western District of Texas. The May graduating class contributed a total of 10,378.79 hours of pro bono legal services to the community, making a tremendous impact on the poor and underserved. The Equal Justice Program and pro bono service are cornerstones of the law school. Texas A&M School of Law is one of the few schools to require each student to complete a minimum of 30 pro bono hours in order to graduate. Assistant Dean Rosalind Jeffers, who oversees the program, presented the award. “Source: https://law.tamu.edu/media/news-media-resources/story/spring-2016-hooding-and-commencement-ceremony

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Charles Lincon

Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Hegelian dialectics, Attic Greek, masters University of Amsterdam.