Don't let it go to your head... Or maybe that's exactly what you should be doing...
M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Sondheim Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 2:56 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Narcissism normalised. 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 > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qv.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
