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Apr 19, 2013 at 08:44 PM
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Just a conversation starter to stir the waters here a bit... Has anyone read the book Generation Me by Jean Twenge? Do you think she is right in her conclusion that we've taken self-esteem curriculum too far and created a whole generation of narcissists? How do you think it will impact our country?
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Apr 20, 2013 at 11:42 PM
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Hi! I haven't read it, but I do believe we have taken self-esteem too far. I was a college professor and I told my students it is not true, contrary to what they are told, that they can "be anything they want to be." And my children, when they were in school, would even get rewards for showing up.
I don't know about narcissistic personality disorder being created, but I do think some folks are growing up expecting too much ("get what you deserve" commercials even play into that idea). I even had a student tell me that "the world owed (him) a living." I think he's in for a big awakening. |
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Jun 19, 2013 at 06:58 PM
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Even when I was a kid, we were told we could be anything we wanted to be. We had assemblies every friday where we would sing songs abaout believing in ourselves. It's brainwashing. Then I would come home and my parents devalued everything I was taught in school. I grew up very confused needless to say. I thought it was just me and when I went through things several years ago, it hit me. American society is a lie, a facade. Everything I knew was wrong and I could not be anything I wanted to be because if I could, it would have been done by now. So much would not have been taken away from me like it had been. That was and still is hard to swallow. How can people sleep at night knowing they are consciously lying to children? What's worse, having innocense raped from you as a child still or as an adult? Everything I know is wrong. I must remind myself of this all the time. I have replaced grandiosity with much cynisism about what was, what could have ben, what is, what should never be, what will be, and what will not.
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Jun 19, 2013 at 10:45 PM
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Jun 20, 2013 at 12:06 AM
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lol well, apparentły narcs view others as extensions as themselves. Since I like you so much, Ill let you choose. Do you want to be on my left side or right side?:-)
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