Empathy-challenged, zero accountability, “Specialness”, grandiosity and raging entitlement… it’s like this whole flippin’ administration is a Psych 1 intro to clinical Narcissism?!
Is Fashion Catering to the Narcissistic Set?
Are fashion houses blatantly catering to today’s casual (yet pervasive) narcissism? Instagram currently boasts 300 million active daily users — that’s a lot of people partaking in our current “look at me culture.”
Thanks to social media, and Instagram in particular, narcissism has arguably swept the nation like Pokemon with a vanity issue. But there is a “chicken or egg” element to it — were people narcissistic to begin with and now they simply have a platform for it, or is social media breeding narcissism? “Probably a bit of both,” Dr. Lisa Firestone, clinical psychologist and senior editor forPsych Alive, explains, “To me, narcissism is–and I think this holds up in research–desperately wanting to feel good about yourself, and it’s different than feeling good about yourself. It’s not a solid sense of self; it’s a sense of self that needs continual reinforcement.” And what better way to get reinforcement than actual double taps?