Stupid Narcissists Rule the World

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In an act of self-preservation, past civilizations had confined The Stupid to certain settlements, replete with their drinking establishments, entertainments, and sports arenas. There the "intellectually-challenged" could safely torment each other with their vulgarities and rampant, uninformed idiocy. The advent of radio, television, and, most egregiously, the Internet has changed all that: now stupid people have unmitigated access to the kind of technology that allows them to pollute the airwaves and the broadband with their inferior analytic capacity, low-brow output, trivial observations, monosyllabic exclamations, and harebrained queries. Thus, the New Media have transformed stupidity from a mental endemic to a viral epidemic. The wise and knowledgeable may broadcast while the Stupid merely narrowcast -- but the Stupid have the upper hand, what with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and YouTube decimating the traditional print and electronic media.




This technological empowerment is the crux of the problem: there are no barriers to entry, no institutional filters, and no erudite and experienced intermediaries to hold back the avalanche of doltish balderdash, the tsunami of nonsense, and the flood of misinformation, factoids, and conspiracies that corrupt our intellectual space. Commercial interests inevitably and invariably side with the brainless masses because of their superior aggregate purchasing power. The privatization of education is one manifestation of this creeping decadence. The mindless nature of television programming is another. The empty one-liners that comprise most "conversations" on social networks are its culmination. We are surrounded with clods, harassed by the lame-brained, criticized, censored, and ordered by simpletons. Welcome to the New Dark Ages

(From the book "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" by Sam Vaknin - Click on this link to purchase the print book, or 16 e-books, or 2 DVDs with 12 hours of video lectures on narcissists, psychopaths, and abuse in relationships: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html)

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[TheGoalSetter]

This video reminds me of the book, The Narcissist Epidemic (TNE). Although Mr. Vaknin describes how we have a narcissist culture, TNE provides deeper explanation of how we got here.

Indeed, as Mr. Vaknin said, technology has made it easier for "the stupid" (who are prone to thinking they are better than they are...as a defence mechanism) to express themselves to more people.

Another catalyst explained in TNC is access to easy credit...where people can create their false self quicker.

[samvaknin]

@TheGoalSetter A whole chapter in my book "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" is dedicated to the epidemic of narcissism. I coined the phrase in 1997, more than a decade before the book "The narcissism epidemic."

[Nyder]

While this is true, it is also true that those institutional safeguards you speak of create a narrow-mindedness that hampers intellectual progress. You, for example, are the best source for information on NPD. Not a university, not a psychiatrist, not a psychologist. But you. Why is that? Because you live it.

[womanbeing]

Marvelous!!

A new video from SAMVAKNIN in in!!

I couldn't click the link fast enough!!

As always, an enlightening talk!!

Powerful perspective!!

[TheUnChainedOne1]

So you are saying that the average person is stupid and therefore they should not be allowed the same rights as a smarter person? Dictators and social Darwinists have the same idea. That is a very dangerous ideology to carry and its probably a good thing that you are not in a position of power.

[ewe2oobes]

Tsunami of nonsense!!!! ahahahahahahaa

[tkathryyn]

Bravo. Humans are primitive. The humans species is still in its infancy stage. Only a handful can think beyond what most people can comprehend.

[PNHassett]

Something tells me Sam just saw Mike Judge's movie Idiocrasy.

[poocky100]

I get bored talking to most people because they all sound the same, like they regurgitate tv sitcoms. And all young men have to be funny, insensitive and duplicitous it seems. Women have to be strong ( which means cruel to other women) and look like the typical northern euro the media presents. But everyone's nasty vicious and mean and they can all go to he'll in that case because I'm not impressed. I would like to have an intelligent conversation with an individual instead of a cult member but

[TranPolarCat]

Sorry you seem in so foul a mood about it. Doubt the rant will help, but I'm sure many, even the stupid, will agree... (I might even be one, according to today's parameters.)

[Kathydrel]

The more things change , the more things stay the same, or the blind leading the blind ,still ! loved it ! Just try to get someone to look in a real reference book , they laugh at you and say "  just go on wicapedia "

[j2bodydouble]

FOX news explained?

[narciskobe24]

Lol the thing is my name is Narcis.

[mathcernea]

[cont'd] When trying to squeeze into a hierarchy, too often the skill that counts is not the relevant skill itself, but the ability to persuade other people you have that skill or that you should have that position--to the detriment of the hierarchy's productivity. People--even intelligent people--value social skills more than talent/ability. This, I think, is the fundamental problem in a democracy, the reason that politicians in power seldom do what should be done.