Slippery Slope: Narcissist
The internet nudgery has burdened me with thinking about the word narcissist.
I do not even have the muscle memory to spell the stupid word. Mississippi. I can spell that. C-ay-N-ay-D-ay. I can spell that. Carburetor. I still have gas stink on fingers. But narcissist? What the hell is a narcissist? When I read the ad contexts I think holy fuck, you must mean curmudgeon, or hermit, or whatever the writers use to describe people that were tired of ads on park benches and paving bricks THIRTY YEARS AGO! If you saw an old person quietly walking down an alley, would you think that person is a narcissist? How about if that person flipped you off when you tried to hand that person a flyer? Or even say hi to that person at a time that did not resonate? Have a nice day. :D |
You're a curmudgeon if you resent it when a word you don't know becomes current.
You're a narcissist if you think everyone should stop using it because you don't like it, and you're entitled to punish anyone who uses it in your presence! Of course, whenever a new bad word comes along, some people use it to hit some other people who don't deserve to be hit. Not the word's fault. |
I am always beautiful, I am always right, I am always good. Everyone will acknowledge this and do exactly as I say.........
.....or else. That's a narcissist. |
Thanks. I have increasingly heard and read the word over the past two years. Prior to that I think that I occasionally heard it for extreme cases, for example water cooler talk about Charlie Sheen winning. But now it seems like average people are calling each other narcissists. It's as though the word has replaced arrogant, which is the word that my generation used as a shade brighter than narcissistic.
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The difference between arrogance and narcissism is a difference with a distinction. Projection of percieved superiority thru dominance vs egocentric self-worship.
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From the Mayo Clinic:
Symptoms Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/syc-20366662 Sounds exactly like our Dear Leader |
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If so then I can not imagine that dark of a corner. I have posted a dick pic or two and had sex beyond my darkest imagination. But to me that was part of growing up. We have become too afraid of each other. Facebook lets us share our addresses. Perhaps we need more of that. |
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