Life Begins at the End of a Selfie Stick Collage

Self-indulgence is a human trait. We spend more time preening ourselves than any other species on the planet. We compliment each other on how handsome or beautiful we are, and we love to share that beauty with the world. Since the advent of the camera phone, our human race has spent more time taking picture of themselves in bathroom mirrors than they have taking a look at the beauty outside. We make devices, and accessories to those devices, for the sole purpose of sharing our tiny, self-congratulatory worlds. In a ten thousand years, when the human species has killed itself off in armageddon, and the aliens come to dig up our remains, what will they think about us as a creed when they find our skeletons firmly clutching a selfie stick, as if our lives depended on it?