There is youtube which has been replaced by facebook….then we have flickr and twitter and ……..anyway a wealth of sites where we can be famous at least for a short time….we can see our vids and fotos and words and…….we can have our instant gratification…we buy zit cream to give us the perfect skin or dye for that perfect blonde color….and with that comes bigger tits….firmer ass and a vacuum of the gut….
Then we go to the gym and do pilates and jazzercise and lift VWs….or we buy home dildos to work every portion of our body or we buy a pill that promises 6 pack abs…..we buy special shoes when worn will give you the perfect ass…..and it goes on and on…..to the point that we are a narcissistic society…..a society of self-center turds……
Back in the day that was called…..
Narcissistic personality disorder, characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and the need for constant attention, has been eliminated from the upcoming manual of mental disorders, which psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illness.
Yes…if you suffered with this disorder….then you were mentally ill……but in today’s world all that has changed….But wait!
As Charles Zanor reports in today’s Science Times, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — due out in 2013 and known as D.S.M.-5 — has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition. The best known of these is narcissistic personality disorder.
So what once was abnormal is now normal…….what a great day for society……justification for self-absorb little turds!
I thought NPD had simply become NOPD – have I misunderstood? 😈
This could have been done 20 years ago during the “ME” generation….when self-absorption became main stream…..
Yes, of course – when everyone’s nuts, lunacy becomes “normal”. However, the world at large has seen America as being generally pretty self-absorbed for a long time and that in many instances is the origin of their distrust of the US. Still, it’s waaaay too late to go back now, isn’t it?
It is that old “American Exceptionalism” thing again…..personally I think it is all just posturing bullshit……the only exceptional thing is the extreme lack of political knowledge of a people free to vote…….they spend more time in self-defeating pursuits than most of the world….