The Dangers of Narcissism

From Writing Blue Highways - The Story of How a Book Happened        
                                  -  William Least Heat Moon

    As pieces and paragraphs finally began to adhere into themes, pre-eminent among them was narcissism, a widespread and deadly contagion that began rising in the late sixties and early seventies and was fast moving to social domination.  When you consider the perils to human continuance within a humane civilization, at the heart of each one lurks narcissism.  We solve nothing until we solve ourselves.