 You know, in the end, we're all narcissists, but there is a difference between varying forms of narcissism. Hey there, NJRoot22.com in my zero degree basement recording studio. Here I have a better mic now, and hopefully I don't have any more problems with my mic cutting out. But anyway, we recently did a video about digital narcissism or something like that, about how the new technology era we're in and how technology specifically, and more specifically than that, the smartphone and social media and even video games are all meant to psychologically hook you and profit others. I would think that most people who use such technology don't really know the mechanisms behind this whole racket, this brain racket, but even those that do know, oh yeah, they're just addicting us. They don't really care. They enjoy the addiction. Sort of like a cipher, whatever, in the matrix when he wanted the frickin' steak to be in the matrix and be powerful. I mean, that was a very good analogy to what I'm talking about here. But I've been thinking about this, and I realized that we're all narcissistic. I'm freezing here. It's like zero degrees where I'm filming this, and I'm only wearing sweatpants and a thin jacket. But anyway, all human beings are narcissistic to a degree, or you could even call it self-absorbed. For instance, we eat to keep ourselves alive, and we have a job to earn money to buy us things, or to have a house, for instance, to live in. Even people who are big on charities, they do it for their own, oh, good pat on the back. Hey, good job with that. Thanks for helping the homeless. It feeds their own ego. Even things you do in your spare time are for your pleasure. Oh, I enjoy watching sports, or I enjoy watching movies. I enjoy. It's all about me, me, me. So there's the basic simple survival, which I wouldn't necessarily call narcissistic. It's just survival. And then there's people who are borderline psychopaths and sociopaths and hardcore narcissists. Me, me, me. They'd look at me. I'm going to do it for me. I'll stab someone in the back for me, me, me. At the same time, you can also justify all this and say, everybody dies. Why don't we just do whatever we feel like living for our short time on earth? There is a line, I think, between people who do things for their own survival and how technology accelerates and amplifies the whole narcissistic realm of society. I think it's gotten, and I've jabbed the apps and the social media things and the selfies were never this big 30 years ago. People weren't just taking pictures of themselves all the time. It seems like everybody's alone and they're just taking pictures of themselves out of nice background or horizon or skyline or sunset. I really think this whole narcissistic acceleration has happened in a very short time. And I think the parameters have changed a lot too. I mean, anybody can become recognized now. You can have an unattractive person if they lift their shirt up and they're popular on some sort of dating app or hardcore pornographic thing. Everybody can become, I call it a mini-celebrity. I'm a mini-celebrity. I get likes and everybody's competing with each other for likes and they get these dopamine hits and you can find an audience for anything. Like, kids, fat kids in the basement of their parents' house can get big recognition or sometimes even win millions of dollars by playing video games. So technology has expanded our ability to become mini-celebrities. It used to be your group of friends in your neighborhood. Now it's anywhere. For any subject, doesn't have to be just a weird kid because even the weird kid now has an audience somewhere. Except for us, you know, because we speak the truth. It seems like that's the least popular thing on planet Earth now. It's unreal. But what happens is once these people get their mini-celebrity dome, celebrity dumb, celebrity whatever, they then feel obligated to keep it going because they don't want to lose that status. And no one wants to lose their status as the king of something or a popular person or people are talking about them. And I don't know. So they end up, it shapes them and their future. Everything I'm going to do now, I'm going to take a picture. That's why everybody takes pictures of their food when they go out to eat somewhere so they can tell someone they went to this new place or new restaurant. It's like the technology has really kind of ruined it. Whereas you would just wait till you saw your friend the next time. You wouldn't call all your friends when you went to a new restaurant. You were one of the first people. I went to this place. They had a great sushi. I went to this new place. The technology has made it profoundly easy. You just send out one message. It's like a lazy. And everybody's like, oh, you went there. How was it? And people used to do dumb stunts. Oh, I'm going to jump over this creek in my BMX bike. And now people do dumb things for their social media files. I'm going to hang off this building. And then they end up falling and dying. The bottom line is like tech has artificially enhanced all this narcissism and made people bigger narcissists than they probably possibly could have been in the past. There are benefactors for you being an idiot. It's people who make these platforms and these social media apps and so on. They're the ones getting rich off you taking advantage of your psychological weakness for not understanding what's going on here. It's like this weird Bermuda triangle. It's happening to everybody. I wish I could explain it better. But I think perhaps maybe this is something that we have to go through to learn more about the human mind and everything else. I'm freezing my butt off here. If my speech has been jittery or whatever, I have such a small window to film these things. I have to take advantage of the moment. Please hit the like and subscribe if you have any suggestions or anything I can do better here. Let me know and I'll see you next video.