Recently a NYTimes 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?
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...illusionary pseudo reality are devasting for people and planet...
BeantwoordenVerwijderenbut the same illusionary pseudo reality has always been part of human life, it shifts only different ways because we know much more from each other, and media can fake everything. everything is the same but different...