PROBLEMS OF NARCISSISM IN EDUCATION: THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM AS A DANGEROUS GLOBAL PHENOMENON FOR THE FUTURE

https://www.reddit.com/r/zeronarcissists/comments/1h1trmf/problems_of_narcissism_in_education_the_culture/

created by theconstellinguist on 28/11/2024 at 11:14 UTC*

4 upvotes, 0 top-level comments (showing 0)

PROBLEMS OF NARCISSISM IN EDUCATION: THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM AS A DANGEROUS GLOBAL PHENOMENON FOR THE FUTURE

1: https://oaji.net/articles/2019/457-1566969219.pdf

2: https://oaji.net/articles/2019/457-1566969219.pdf

3: https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer

4: https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer

1. Modernism, which appeared as a result of industrialization, has since then developed further, resulting in a postmodern society, characterized by a significant change in values. This shift in values is particularly evident in the quality of education, and man's subsequent relation towards work as a result.

**Narcissism can also be present in schools where education is endorsed, including the attempt to turn the teacher into a disability accommodations without pay as seen on my Statement on Reddit, a servant or a caregiver. This is precisely the damage narcissism can wreak on the educative sector.** narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/StatementOnReddit

1. Schools have become social institutions in which learners spend their time in the role of served clients. The teacher is therefore assigned the social role of the servant, in which he is to primarily satisfy the pupil in his personal needs. This kind of relationship stems from the phenomenon of narcissism, which is already a cultural phenomenon. Studies of cultural narcissism are presented here, sampling relevant research of American provenience (with special focus on the USA). These studies suggest that cultural narcissism may become a global phenomenon in the future.

1. He labelled this pathological "liberation of humanity" the problem of narcissism: a form of self-absorption analogous to that of the mythological figure Narcissus. Professor Lasch was one of the firsts who attempted to grasp this topic as a social phenomenon and described it from a historical-anthropological perspective in a coherent way.

1. As it will be shown below, this is still a relatively “uncharted territory” both in sociological and pedagogical research. Nevertheless, some pioneering studies can be found, published during the first decade after the millennium in the United States, most typically in the form of research conducted by university lecturers and psychologists. This study is based on this research, even if one has to acknowledge that there are not many of them so far.

1. The late professor Christopher Lasch claimed that to liberate humanity from such outmoded ideas as love and duty has become the mission of Post-Freudian therapies, and particularly of their converts and popularizers (Lasch, 1980, p. 13)

1. In terms of Consumer society not only provides individuals, but also groups, with the opportunity to achieve a malignant type of narcissistic gratification in their pursuit to avoid dissatisfaction. In turn, for those who are economically and culturally too poor to participate in this pursuit, the only source of satisfaction, and often a very effective one, is their narcissistic pride in belonging to a group (Fromm, 1964, p. 89).

1. The Culture of Narcissism: - a general loss of historical continuity (indifference to the past and the future); - dependence on bureaucracy; - inability to empathize; - decline in institutional authority; - overfocusing on psychotherapy; - tendency to hypochondria (cult of health); - experiences without a deeper search for meaning; - identification with celebrities; - diverting attention only to one's own person; - identity crisis and a crisis of relationships.

1. . Rich American society has thus gone through considerable development and contemporary society looks like the underworld of the past (Lasch, 1980, p. 53).

1. Acquiring wealth has meant a major cultural transformation of capitalism. The American, and eventually also the European citizen, at the latest from the 1970s, has had no intention to be a modest self-made man, but has rather stylized himself as a “happy hooker”, who tries to captivate others through his image (Lasch, 1980, p. 64). Pleasure has become his truly desired goal: a fast and pleasant delight, a modern awakening of hedonism.

1. This new kind of apathy toward learning anything new is not caused by any distress, but rather by an excess of constantly alternating stimuli, which ultimately causes that the more rights, comforts, possibilities and information society gives us, the less we care about them (Lipovetsky, 2005, p. 53)

1. However, very few young people today are willing to sacrifice their time and will to acquire knowledge in areas such as mathematics, science, the knowledge of another language, etc. If one has not learned the necessary degree of discipline at an early age, he often suffers from a pathological inability to concentrate and to have a deeper interest in serious subjects and questions, which is naturally relevant from the perspective of education and training.

1. Similarly, the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

1. the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders concluded that narcissistic personality disorder would be kept as a distinct type of disorder, but with four characteristic traits, namely: pathological disposition, a grandiose or on the contrary, vulnerable phenotype; expressivity or, on the contrary, being unable to properly express oneself verbally; and a specific overall structure of personality (Morey & Stagner, 2012).

1. The reason for this is that Narcissistic Personality Disorder can be measured by methods, which detect, above all else, the presence of the following character traits: arrogance, self-centeredness, desire for attention, exploitation, charm, cunning, malice, disdain, revenge, boastfulness, uneasiness, grandiosity, reserve, inaccessibility, insecurity, indifference, anxiety, supremacy, coldness, aggression, day dreaming, shyness, sexual inhibition and others (Paris, 2014).

1. People suffering from cultural narcissism often attend therapies, but often not to analyze and understand the depths of their problems, which would then be solved by them under the guidance of the therapist. The basic intention of people seeking a psychotherapist is often only to learn something new about themselves.

1. Being employed is understood by the narcissist mainly at an instrumental level. It is the necessary evil which is needed to make the money as easy and as fast as possible in order to obtain enough funds to experience the narcissistic relationships of leisure-time. Work is perceived by the narcissist as burdensome duty, albeit necessary from a strictly utilitarian perspective: it makes enjoying free time possible. Employment is the necessary evil of the week, preparation for real life at the weekend. In order to make the unpleasant period of the work week more tolerable, the pressure to make work maximally enjoyable is growing in the atmosphere of cultural narcissism

1. The individualization of hypermodern man, narcissistically self-absorbed in himself only, then prevails over all other social aspects, especially interest in work and the public sphere. This creates a kind of zero sociality (Lipovetsky, 1983, p. 19), which is referred to as the second phase of consumerism (Lipovetsky, 1983, p. 26). One of the most visible signs of such behavior is, on the one hand, exaggerated activity towards one’s own person, with passivity and indifference to the outside world and its events on the other hand. The individualized person has become a passive observer of public affairs, which he only considers from a distance, often without his own opinion; well-entertained, irresponsible for anything else than his own spacetime, perfectly personalized, condemned to narcissist self-service

1. The study’s method of ascertaining respondents’ willingness to take risks was based on the strategy that after answering 101 knowledge questions, respondents were given the opportunity to choose or bet on another answer. The conclusion of the study has shown that narcissists are more able to take a risk and gamble – they bet and guess more often.

5: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06565494?cond=Narcissism&rank=1

6: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06565494?cond=Narcissism&rank=1

1. Campbell’s team has found that in such cases narcissistically-oriented individuals use the so-called top-down strategy. They seem to repeat to themselves that they are good and great, and therefore they cannot fail at the task. Because of this internal narcissistic strategy, they remain proud and self-confident even when factually their performance is low or truly bad.

1. . In addition, it has been shown that a narcissistic individual can, due to his uncritical optimism, self-love and absence of fear of failure or depression, draw emotional benefits from remaining in such an emotional state. The authors have thus confirmed the results of older case studies on narcissism and they confirmed the hypothesis that narcissists are in fact generally happier than others as they have higher self-esteem and suffer less depression and anxiety (Watson & Biderman, 1994). A different team of Campbell, composed of Campbell, Rudich, and Sedikides, has published another interesting study under the title “Narcissism, SelfEsteem, and the Positivity of Self-Views: Two Portraits of Self-Love” in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

1. It shows that even though narcissists have lower self-esteem in the real world, they are more creative in online activities and can do whatever it takes for better self presentation and an improved online image. A typical feature of narcissistic behavior is thus the exaggeration of information about one’s own person and showing off.

1. A phony national economy (with $11 trillion of government debt).The mortgage meltdown and the resulting financial crisis are just one demonstration of how inflated desires eventually crash to earth (Twenge & Campbell, 2009, p. 6).

1. These privacy shots are then narcissistically shared on social networks, and everyone can feel like a celebrity at least in the circle of their acquaintances. In addition, these people have a growing desire for luxury, to which ultimately every admirer has the right, as well as having the right to behave only according to their own ideas, similarly to their admired celebrities.

1. The narcissist “metrosexual” is thus born, one who always wants to be luxurious, beautiful and dressed in designer clothes according to the latest fashion, in short always “in” and never “out”.

Comments

There's nothing here!