In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the world'. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the collective.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,

A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.