On a recent trip to Paris just before that city’s most tumultuous month in years—one that began with terrorist slaughter and ended with Saturday’s historic 195-nation climate accord—I noticed that the hottest item being hawked on the streets was the “selfie stick.” Parisian street vendors carry bronze replicas of the Eiffel Tower and other baubles in their bags, but what they hold up in their hands for tourists to buy are those silly extenders for cellphones, the better to get a wide-angle selfie. No surprise, really. Where else but Paris, that place of “brilliant pleasures,” in Thomas Jefferson’s words, would …read more
Source: European Voice
