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The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

Worker and Parasite

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The Logic of Capitalism Has, by the Even by the Lay Forties, a Dismantled All That Is

The logic of capitalism has destroyed all those things that we think of as the protestant work ethic. And people are unmoored, i'm sure of everything. They don't the society, the family, all those things are basically gone. And there's nothing to instil. In people. So this leads normal people, not not crazy people, but normal people, everyday people like everybody, to start a engaging and kind of borderline personality disorders - largest one being narcissism.

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