You're Vain and That's OK!

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Vanity was born when the mirror was discovered. That’s what the Chicago Record wrote in 1895, around the time when mirrors became a household item. People (and especially women) were condemned for looking in the mirror, and accused of being sinful. But then the mirror altered the way we think about vanity altogether — and forever changed the way we look at ourselves. In this episode, we explore the history of the mirror, the history of vanity, and what it can teach us about today’s obsession over selfies. Get in touch! Web: jasonfeifer.com Email. jasonfeifer@gmail.com Twitter / Instagram: @heyfeifer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.7	I'm Jason Pfeiffer.
1:15.2	Imagine having never seen yourself before.
1:18.1	Imagine having no idea what you look like.
1:20.7	It was part of the human condition for most of human history.
1:24.3	And so it was with a woman named Mary Beck Lee. She was born in Korea in
1:29.5	1900, but her family fled the Japanese takeover in 1905 and ended up in California. Life was hard
1:35.3	there. To feed her family, Mary would often go to a local slaughterhouse and scour through discarded
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