From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 15:17:16 MDT
< http://www.hermes-press.com/egomania.htm >
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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