February 27, 2007
College Students: We're Specialer Than Thou
The study asserts that narcissists “are more likely to have romantic relationships that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent behaviors.” (Sex and the City/Hollywood lifestyle, huh)Most college students are liberal as well. I'm sensing some overlap.Twenge, the author of “Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before,” said narcissists tend to lack empathy, react aggressively to criticism and favor self-promotion over helping others.
The researchers traced the phenomenon back to what they called the “self-esteem movement” that emerged in the 1980s, asserting that the effort to build self-confidence had gone too far.
The ironic reality is that if everybody is special, then nobody ends up being special. That causes frustration and resentment to aggregate, which leads to seething and brooding anger. This build-up of anger is prone to manifest itself in stupifying and pitiable eruptions of emotional turmoil.
Hence, the average collegiate liberal:
By Good Lt. at February 27, 2007 12:04 PM | | l digg this
