Reply #31: As you say, we all enable and sustain [View All]

[marions ghost]

the 'impenetrable narcissism' which characterizes our government, media and corporate entities.

Quote from your excellent article:

"Through it all, like some eternally slumbering Hindu deity, we Americans dream these things into existence. Far from blameless, we continue to allow the elites to exploit us; therefore, we enable and sustain their titanic sense of entitlement. In turn, we accept their paltry bribes and, as a result, our banal, selfish dreams have conjured forth George Bush from the zeitgeist. Ergo, Bush is a man whose impenetrable narcissism is so grotesque and ringed with fortifications, that all on his own he constitutes a walking analog of the American embassy in Baghdad."

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Exactly.
Once you really understand the condition of pathological Narcissism you start to understand how exploitation works, how it suckers others. There are no boundaries, no brakes. A Narcissist will use, abuse, and exploit without the slightest intrusion of conscience. And they do it while creating the appearance of themselves as fine, upstanding citizens. We are suffering under the reign of a whole cadre of them, and those who admire them.

When will we have had enough?