FWD [forteana] Egomania

From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 15:17:16 MDT

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    Egomania - The Invisible Pandemic

    An unrecognized, invisible killer is stalking the world. The insidious
    aspect of egomania is its ability to take over the mind and soul of its
    victims, so that instead of seeing egomania as a disease, we are made to
    see it as the height of human reason (pursuing our self-interest) and
    the purpose of human existence (getting ahead). Even when we see its
    worst apects---its most hideous visages--we are blind to its destructive
    lethality.

      To succumb to egomania means that we become:

      Limited in outlook or concern to our own activities or needs;

      Blind to the larger reality concerned with self-gratification rather
    than the common good;

      Focusing on greed instead of fellow-feeling;

      Obsessed with an exaggerated sense of self-importance;

      Full of conceit instead of regard for others;

      Controlled by anyone who flatters us or appears to consider our needs;

      Followers of whatever cult leader appears to recognize our importance.

    Christopher Lasch's book The Culture of Narcissism, deals with the
    ideology "of competitive individualism, which in its decadence has
    carried the logic of individualism to the extreme of a war of all
    against all, the pursuit of happiness to the dead end of a narcissistic
    preoccupation with the self." [emphasis added]

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