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...people who unwittingly outsmart it with their genius-level IQ, he assures me that the results were correct. Narcissists, it turns out, can't even fake humility through transparently self-deprecating jokes. So my desire to be in magazines and on TV and on the stage of your child's school play is not a problem. "If you were living in Greek times and decided you wanted to speak in front of the Athenian assembly, does that mean you're a narcissist or that you wanted to participate in the institution of the times?" Pinsky asks. I'm not sure...
...speed in the 1970s when Tom Wolfe coined the Me decade and Christopher Lasch wrote The Culture of Narcissism, then speeding into hyperdrive during the past few years. Both Twenge and Pinsky argue that the narcissism of celebrities is being mirrored in the culture by Americans who, like a child, mimic attention-getting star behavior by singing on YouTube, sexting photos, getting plastic surgery or naming their totally non-Hungarian son Laszlo Stein. (Watch Stein visit a couple getting Botox at home...
...South African average. Walls and streetlights in the town's main drag, Nelson Mandela Drive, are plastered with posters offering "Safe Abortion, Same Day," "Quick and Safe Abortion, 3 Hours," even a free lottery ticket with every "100% guarantee, 2-hour" procedure. Nobu Sipoka, director of the Mthatha Child Abuse Resource Center, says there is no precise data on the incidence of child rape, but says she founded the center because anecdotal evidence from doctors suggested it was unusually high. "It's symptomatic of the unemployment and the poverty," she says. "This is not a happy town." An hour away...
Most everything from common sense to basic research seems to indicate that for the first three years it really needs to be Mom. After that, flip a coin - as long as they've got a loving parent, I'm happy. But there's something unique about the mother-child bonding: they came out of our bodies...
Well there are times I say, "You know what, this mess is so deep, I really don't know what to do to get out of it." Some things are so painful - say, losing a child. I don't have the words that are going to make it all better...