Narcissism: The New Normal?

The old "when I was a kid, we did it better..." doesn't cut it when trying to assess the new landscape; not when there are so many powerful societal and technologi­cal changes pushing us forward - and I really don't think it's all narcissist­ic "punks".



Home life has changed radically in the last 50 years. With microwave cooking available 24/7, kids haven't needed mom for 'dinner time', or even 'lunch time', since they were 9. Add in cheap crud at the drive-thro­ugh, and a cupboard full of empty carbs and odious fats and precooked parts of animals that 'died in some manner', and disrespect for the current culture seems almost inevitable­.



A superior creature might very well appear narcissist­ic, as might the kid who's lost respect for the paradigm of his parent's time.
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