I don't know, but this certainly makes ME feel better, in fact, better 
than most of us combined!


On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, marc garrett wrote:

> Narcissism normalised.
>
> "Recently a NYTimes (http://is.gd/i3Cj9) article announced that
> narcissism is being deleted from the tomb for psychiatric disorders.
> Narcissism will not appear in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and
> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (due out in 2013, and known as
> DSM-5). What happens when what was once morally objectionable behaviour
> ( egotism, vanity, conceit, selfishness) is no longer a 'legitimate'
> social deviance? Is narcissism now so deeply embedded in the collective
> psyche that it is now 'normal'? Is this the ultimate end of the
> neo-liberal exhalation of the individual, celebrity culture, a century's
> worth of advertising and the corporatisation of everyday life?"
> http://ecolabs.posterous.com/narcissism-normalized
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