Hello Concerning Narcissism Readers,
Updated December 18, I am re-releasing my debut podcast, a reading of my recent piece, thanks to improved audio production, sound engineered by Neshma Friend of One Little Alien, who worked with me to create this more sophisticated and professional version, now with music too.
After listening, you may want to click the original post below for pictures and a chart titled Transitioning from Liberalism to Postmodern Theory as it relates to the role of narcissism in postmodernism, inspired by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody.
This piece is notable in that it is potentially groundbreaking as it charts the progression, nay, regression from narcissism to postmodernism to wokeism in the West.
Please enjoy and share in your networks.
-GC
The Interplay of Postmodernism and Narcissism: Threats to Individualism and the Rise of Authoritarianism
Both postmodernism and narcissism inhibit and thwart individualism. Maintaining an internal locus of control would be a threat to both paradigms. The West is in the throes of transitioning from the Enlightenment ideal of the individual to the postmodern heralding of collectives (groups of people). A transition of this magnitude lends itself to, at best,…
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