Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the novel is the way it reflects ourselves back at us.
… Another word for narcissism is 'personalization.' Web 2.0 technology personalizes culture so that it reflects ourselves rather than the world around us.
IT's interesting the way television tries to be a mirror, keeping its antennae so attuned to the tilts and yaws of our social and cultural lives that it gives the illusion of reflecting ourselves back to us.
"One of the handful of the areas where the [public service broadcasting] system is wanting is around reflecting ourselves at a point when you have got devolution and an increasingly multicultural society".
The recent debates about the lack of development opportunities for actors from non-traditional backgrounds seem to miss the crucial issue that if we keep having the same conversations about developing talent with the same people, then we'll keep throwing up the same kind of artists and they will, on the whole, reflect ourselves.
We all want to see a walking machine that reflects ourselves".
Sometimes we all, even Jesus, need a "Canaanite woman" to reflect ourselves back at us, to remind us that God's mercy, God's compassion, knows no bounds.
"What I'm really interested in is how we reflect ourselves into technology, into gaming, into interactive art what comes from our bodies and what can be used towards interactivity," explains Boddington.
And, because we humans can clearly be beaten, as adversaries we are far more attractive than Death itself, and so we humans have come to plan and scheme to defeat us humans, to build great superstructures of law and belief and politics and violence out of our fears of the Death we see reflected in ourselves.
Our children, and our success as mothers, reflects on ourselves.
