The History of the Mirror

I don't think we've really come to terms yet with the historical importance of the mirror and how much it changed ourselves. This is something I've been thinking about quite a lot recently. The more of a sense of self an individual has, the more they can be made to conform to certain patterns or encourage to operate in certain ways. And you can see this as part of the civilizing process as Norbert Elias called it. So the sense of self growing over the Middle Ages correlates with the declining violence in society. Now if you take this through to the modern age and the society's own sense of itself, then I would say culminating in 1968 with our first picture of Earth from outer