Even though I feel that people may take the connotation of self loathing and vanity as bad and negative, I think that Kraftwerk is actually hoping to affirm that every man is living in the mirror and that it is actually a modality of being. "even the greatest stars" kind of sums this point and i think alludes to the fact that everybody holds within them a vanity which is essential for life however, it can become obsessive and pathological in the case of the artist who lives in a hall of mirrors constantly. But nonetheless, "even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass" is a testament to this insight that we live our lives choosing things to exist in them (products, people, etc) based off of their relation to ourselves (personal preference), in other words, our lives are grounded in preferential choices that are determined by self-conscious assessments in relation to the object of choice.
Even though I feel that people may take the connotation of self loathing and vanity as bad and negative, I think that Kraftwerk is actually hoping to affirm that every man is living in the mirror and that it is actually a modality of being. "even the greatest stars" kind of sums this point and i think alludes to the fact that everybody holds within them a vanity which is essential for life however, it can become obsessive and pathological in the case of the artist who lives in a hall of mirrors constantly. But nonetheless, "even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass" is a testament to this insight that we live our lives choosing things to exist in them (products, people, etc) based off of their relation to ourselves (personal preference), in other words, our lives are grounded in preferential choices that are determined by self-conscious assessments in relation to the object of choice.