Couple’s final words are indelible. A son makes a surprising discovery on his elderly parents’ answering machine after his father’s passing. ( Source: The New Yorker)
Narcissism and Its Discontents
Narcissism has not only become a normalized social condition, it is increasingly being incentivized. The framework of narcissism with the central pillars of lack of empathy, entitlement, grandiosity, superficiality, anger, rage, arrogance, and shallow emotion is a manifestation of pathological…