A Pervasive Savagery: The Narcissism of the Super Wealthy

There are many similarities between the rich in the 20th century and the rich today. People can dream of Americans ascending from the bottom up and becoming the happiest people in the world. However, Jimmy Gutz, a poor farmer who has grown from a poor slave to a super rich class, is never satisfied. Gatsby opens a luxurious party, but he was not really happy and lives under the conditions of ignoring poverty. Gatsby's living conditions should not happen on a farm in North Dakota State, but this does not make him an excuse for the attitude towards the poor.

An avid observer of modern society has found widespread narcissism. One of the observers is Christopher Rush. In his best-selling book "Culture of the Story" he wrote "Self-Intoxication about Self" that created ridicule. Rush believes that our modern society is full of people who can not survive without the audience of admiration ... They need to stick to people who overflow celebrities, power, and charm. ...... "

Collective narcissism (or group narcissism) extends the notion of individual narcissism to its social aspect. This tends to exaggerate the positive image and the importance of the group to which the individual belongs, that is, the inner group. While the classic definition of narcissism focuses on individuals, collective narcissism is a phenomenon in which people can have similarly high views on groups and that the group can act as a narcissistic entity It suggests. Collective narcissism is related to ethnocentricism. But while ethnocentricism focuses primarily on self-centeredness at the racial or cultural level, collective self-ecstasy is not limited to culture and ethnicity, but also to all kinds of inner groups . Although ethnocentricism is the hegemony of the inner group, collective narcissism is a self-defensive tendency to devote unrealistic self-right to belief in the inner group's identity and greatness.

My team is studying collective drug theory as a personally relevant function. We believe that a certain percentage of people in a particular group will meet the criteria. However, collective narcissism can capture the entire population, which, at first glance, leads to an outbreak of unfair group anger and reaction of prejudice against minorities. Collective narcissism is the most dangerous as a group syndrome - a belief that the justice group is not recognized because it is shared by most group members, it will be the dominant story about the group's past and present