Quote: (11-15-2018 06:42 PM)Johnnyvee Wrote:
I think Narcissism is a bad term to be honest. Your offspring are after all the the extension off yourself. So if you see yourself in your children, and you do everything you can to insure they are successful, (same with grandchildren) you can in fact be described as a narcissist! Since you are making sure the only part of you that can survive and thrive, does just that.
My point is that this term, and other terms like manipulation, empathy etc. are all value neutral terms, unless you inject some ad-hoc objective morals. This tends to boil down to either religious or ideologically derived narratives.
I reality, not investing all in your offspring, unless you have a plan to maintain the soma (biological immortality) is self destructive. You are eradicating your primordial germ line, which is really what matters. The soma is after all just a shell to protect what is really alive, which is the sperm and egg cells. (Unless you can find a way extend the soma indefinitely as I mentioned.)
No, it's not. Narcissism has a very specific definition.
The clinical narcissist is a black hole of self-loathing, who compensates by creating an artificial persona; for him to believe in this persona, others must believe in it, so he spends all of his time being grandiose and promising people the world so that they'll follow him in his cult of personality. Should you spot his promises for the lies they are, and confront him - the shell gets momentarily ripped away, and the nihilistic violence of the black hole where his soul ought to be is unleashed on you.
Expose a narcissist to himself, and he will do everything in his power to murder you. Failing that, he'll create a new persona (often with little to no relation to his prior persona) and will begin recruiting a new group of followers.
That's the clinical narcissist; what we're seeing culture-wide is the affected narcissist. Social media creates a situation similar to the narcissist, where one's persona - their social media profile - can easily be constructed however one might want. When this persona diverges too far from the core personality (such as sexy instagram thots with expensive cars, who managed to take those pictures by letting sheiks shit in their mouths) you induce narcsissism into the individual. It's not irrevocable, but it's the sort of thing that takes years of therapy to cure, and nobody's trying to get better.
Somebody else on here said that tinder was a spyglass, not a window - exactly! We spy on the constructed personalities of others, while hiding ourselves from them, and we wonder why intimacy becomes impossible. Nearly everybody is larping these days, and they wonder why nothing gets done.