It is a testimony to that One of the best films in 2025, HBO’s “The Mountainhead,He has d. Strangelove “level of tampering Fazig spectrum of our time. ((Short spoiler warning.This is followed by four technical bridges over a day when the whole world is located literally in chaos and civil war, due to the launch of the annoying social media tools of information, with the implicit that millions of people were killed in 24 hours. But our billionaire heroes – played by Steve Carrell, Jason Schwarticman, Korean Michael Smith and Rami Youssef – are only interested in taking advantage of the situation to raise more money, power and status for themselves. All the time, it is clear that philosophers and authors who call the names that they have never read while indulging the imaginations of living forever and the rule of the universe as charitable dictators.
However, “The Mountainhead” cannot compete with reality. After all, and It is claimed that Elon Musk addicted to the ketamine It is people by destroying the American Agency for International Development, all of this while continuing to claim that it is the savior of humanity because it will ever build Mars. ((He will not do thatThe writer and director Jesse Armstrong never indulge the desire to give the human character to his main narcissistic personalities by giving them soft, secret or limits to their self -respect. At a point, the Musk Stand-in is asking whether the other people are real, and they are not able to.
They will continue to support Trump for the same reason that causes the audience to line up to see Tom Heidston plays Loki in films: allowing them to not realism social media to feel that real life is just an enjoyable imagination, if it is Sad.
Everywhere you look at the Internet these days, people talk about Narcissism. Tiktok is full of advice, most of which are doubtful, on how to know if someone is narcissistic. the Subreddit /Raisedbynarcissis has more than a million Members. Social media in general is a place where the disturbances are violently flying, and often unfair. But it was not always like this. A decade ago, narcissism was a somewhat character disorder, especially compared to more prescribed diagnoses, such as social sociology or border personality disorder. I would like to say that many people were not aware of it as a psychological state. So that to this day it is still, the word “narcissists” is offended to describe people who are just scattered or arrogant. However, there is value in all this speech. It has raised awareness that narcissism is a real psychological disorder, and has helped many people understand abuse or other relationship issues that they dealt with in the past.
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The direct and clear motivation for this trend is Donald Trump, who lives in the Narcissian dream as an inevitable presence during the past decade. I am not a psychiatrist and I cannot diagnose anyone. However, there is no denial, regardless of the list of reviews of narcissistic characteristics that you withdraw from any medical site, fits Trump each one to a comic degree. ((This is also the case with social alleys, Which often comes with narcissism) Introduction from the United States government is not impressive.”
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Trump routinely claims to be perfect. “I don’t really think I made any mistakes,” Trump announced in April. During his first campaign, he claimed to be a Christian, But he did not ask for the forgiveness of God. When he later asked why not, he explained that Because he believes that he does not make mistakes. he He called himself a king and Christ. He often boasts of his appearance in a way that exited Tats with reality, called his body “perfect.“His supporters laugh at this, as if he was joking, but if you care about his dialect when he says these things, it is clear that he is not joking.
But it is not just Trump. The presence of the narcissists in the tools of power in our country is the direct cause of many current political misery. Respect for Musk Messianic Self Freafy for him, but it appears to be binding quality for technology leaders who have taken a difficult turn to the right in recent years, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and Marc Andressen. The liberals are right to worry about this phenomenon because the narcissists are not only annoying, but they are dangerous, especially when they have strength and money.
However, there is no doubt that these men have absorbed millions of Americans to verify their autonomy. Trump’s loyal supporters talk about him as if he was Christ, and he often claims that God sent him to save them. Musk has an army of blind loyalists online, most of whom are young people who buy legend as a super excessive, does not see his only true skill is the BS artist who gets the credit for the work of others. The strength of these men depends on persuading millions to believe in the narcissists ’view of itself. It is a trick that almost every leader uses.
YouTube essay player Lindsay Ellis released an interesting video In 2021, about the reason the narcissists often have famous characters in movies and TV shows, with examples like Loki in Marvel or Lucille Bluth in “Destrrest Development”. The narcissists are enjoyable to watch in imagination because they behave in ways most of us sometimes want to do, if we do not stumble with concerns such as sympathy for others or facing accountability for our actions. We get an unparalleled excitement from watching the narcissist running the feelings of people or exploiting others without shame. However, as you notice, these characters are almost always bad. If they have a face heading towards good, they will be rewritten as people with sympathy-and-not-Narcissists at all, only people who have high but unconnected levels.
But the pleasure of movie fans with narcissistic bad guys get a long way to explain the reservation that men such as Musk and Trump on their fans. They are evil is the reason that their supporters love them. Their followers have the imagination of the ability to treat people with rude, without fear of revenge. When Musk jumps on Twitter to distort people with land accusations, its fans are suspense. When Trump mocks people or victims of violence in his careers, his fans attend them. Ordinary people cannot treat people like these, for fear of being expelled, pronounced or avoided. But they taste the sadistic imagination by rooting the wicked.
In the face of the growing fascism, the maximum of the Internet has become the ideology of the unconventional right, known as the Wilheli Evidence, Klushihat: “There must be groups that are protected by law but they are not connected, along with the external groups that the law links but does not protect.” It is the politicized version of narcissism, where you are always president and also the victim, and every other person is nothing but an audience or an enemy.
Unfortunately, social media makes the situation worse. It puts a brightness of entertainment on non -imaginary behavior. When Musk destroys life -saving programs or Trump deportes innocent people to put them in foreign torture prisons, their followers are mediate through their screens and jokes online. Many of them may not find that it is very fun seeing an innocent person who is tortured if they have to see him with their own eyes. But watching Trump and Musk do so from afar makes it feel like a TV program. We see this in the increasing number of stories about Trump’s voters, when family members or friends are deported. It is fun when they see it on Twitter, but in real life, it is difficult to swallow. However, they will continue to support Trump for the same reason that causes the audience to see Tom Heidston to play Loki in films: allowing them to not realistic social media to feel that real life is just a pleasant imagination, if it is Sad.
As for our rest, I think the magic of the narcissists is not only limited to survival in the era of its narration by them; It is also about our arrogance. Fear of being narcissistic chases many of us in the era of social media, where the ability to get attention is dealt with as a measure of a person’s value. How many followers do you have? How many views can you win for our technology by increasing participation in the free content you provided on the basic system? It creates so real concern that we have become obsessed with itself that we are losing our connection to our humanity.
On the one hand, people should not worry that they will develop clinical narcissism, which caused “I spend a lot of time on Instagram”. On the other hand, one does not need to be narcissistic to harm people. Former President Joe Biden is not narcissistic-he is clearly sympathetic to other people-but he has the great ego to the point that he turns into self-deception. This is the unwillingness to see his weaknesses caused unbearable damage, by persuading him to stay for a long time in a campaign he could not win.
Politics may have pushed Biden far in the direction of the ego. For the rest of us, there is a real danger of incentives towards selfishness on social media. It makes us more cruel and less thinking for others. It allows us to rationalize fraud and lying, which is why ordinary people who do not have psychological disorders often participate often. Social media was supposed to link people to each other, but it is encouraging to move in to ways that harm them and others. Perhaps this is why Trump’s vote has become easier for some people after spending a lot of time online. Yes, it is good to hate narcissism. Perhaps more of us will persuade us to try more difficult to be less obsessed with himself.
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