Tiffany Leiderby
Narcissus & his Daffodils

I want to put awareness on narcissm and how it has a negative impact on our planet. Why social value, prestige and gaining authority has become an important factor to so many humans.

Psychologists have found statistically significant trends that show a steady increase in narcissism and hostility in popular music, as well as indications that individuals who score high on tests for “grandiose exhibitionism,” a common trait of NPD. Another simple conclusion that has been drawn from the data: real world Facebook and Twitter egotists set benchmarks for normal users of social media, just like their art world counterparts. Both misshape the wider cultural environment, but also open the floodgates to a more extreme scenario—the normalization of narcissism. Instagram, which, let’s face it, is largely a selfie-sharing app, is currently used to promote, sell and make art. In related news, several prominent writers have turned art criticism into a popularity contest with commentary measured in thumbs ups, red hearts and smiley-face emojis.


Dtheres a difference between self love and exhibistionist
selfies as an art form since she was sixteen, an act she considers “a super positive affirmation of self-love.” And, last but not least, painter Parker Ito—a self-described “prosumer,” or “a person who simultaneously produces and consumes culture”—recently took to coolhunting website the Creators Project to define Young Internet Based Artists (YIBA) as a generational cohort that is “ready and waiting” to become art’s “new hot commodity.”
In the same blog entry, Ito also wrote about wanting to purchase a video by web-artist Rafaël Rozendaal (who self-defines as an “everywhere-based visual artist”): “The narcissist in me saw something charming about owning that amount of internet real estate.”

ho was desired by both men and women for his beauty. Narcissus continuously rejected them all without any remorse. One day, whilst on a hunt, he rests by a spring and falls in love with his own reflection. Spending timeless days and nights sat by it before wasting away and becoming a beautiful Daffodil, the genus of which is “Narcissus

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After basic needs are met, consumers begin buying items for social status; as people try to acquire more and more status, more and more expensive status products are needed. Producing all these things generates climate-changing greenhouse gas emission

a special penchant for hypocrisy. Kim Kardashian tweeted a heartfelt message about the realities of climate change, but flies everywhere in a private plane. Kylie Jenner, declaring her heartbreak at the ongoing bushfires in Australia, once chartered a jet for a make-up launch party. Writers, directors and actors claim moral high ground – as Gervais noted – while lining the pockets of companies with dubious moral practices.
But the narcissism endemic to celebrities who believe in a divinely ordained right to lecture the public – often as a status marker, proof they’re on the right side of history – is patronising and a lot more troubling than the hypocrisy that so often underlies it.


elf-love is recognising your inner abilities and nurturing and acknowledging them. It is very commonly said that you cannot love someone else until you learn to love yourself. 'You' is where your world begins, but it should not be where it ends, because that’s narcissism. There’s a huge difference between loving yourself and being a narcissist. A narcissist’s world is just about them, they don’t just prioritise themselves, they neglect others and create their own world where they are superior of others

oving yourself means maintaining conscious awareness of who you are and what lies within you. It means accepting yourself the way you are. Self-love is when a person cares for themselves while keeping others in mind. When you love someone, you accept them for who they are. You do not depend on validation or distraction from the outside, you accept what exists between you and the other. It is the same with self-love. You establish a relationship with this mysterious ‘other’ and you never turn away, no matter how ugly and real it gets.

Narcissism
Narcissism is a whole other concept, and it is seen as a personality disorder too, termed Narcissistic Personality Disorder. A narcissistic person loves themselves and only themselves. They are full of pride and have such vanity that to an extent that they even forget other people’s existence. This sense of prestige comes at a price and is vulnerable. Those with narcissistic disorders need constant reassurance from their peers, because they have to be the best, the most right, and the most competent; do everything their way; own everything; and control everyo

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