Comments on: Roundup http://www.edrants.com/roundup-108/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: May Barber http://www.edrants.com/roundup-108/comment-page-1/#comment-193744 May Barber Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:50:29 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5546#comment-193744 Dude, all due respect, but you don't understand what they mean by narcissism. Geekiness isn't narcissim. Obsession with a single thing isn't narcissism. Narcissism is essentially over-inflated self-esteem. Do you watch the poker? Howard Ledderer and Phil Helmuth are both obsessed with poker, but only Helmuth is a narcissist. At its most extreme it is very much a personality disorder in that it inhibits the ability of a person to effectively operate in the world. Dude, all due respect, but you don’t understand what they mean by narcissism. Geekiness isn’t narcissim. Obsession with a single thing isn’t narcissism.

Narcissism is essentially over-inflated self-esteem. Do you watch the poker? Howard Ledderer and Phil Helmuth are both obsessed with poker, but only Helmuth is a narcissist. At its most extreme it is very much a personality disorder in that it inhibits the ability of a person to effectively operate in the world.

]]> By: fairest http://www.edrants.com/roundup-108/comment-page-1/#comment-193546 fairest Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:01:52 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5546#comment-193546 If in that interview Amis replaced "those feckless lit bloggers" with "5,000 words by a young guy who works at the <em>London Review</em>" ya'll would be up in arms! If in that interview Amis replaced “those feckless lit bloggers” with “5,000 words by a young guy who works at the London Review” ya’ll would be up in arms!

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