Narcissism as a Virtue in New America

Narcissism isn't a new thing, the name comes from I think a greek fable of all things, but we seem to be reaching new highs in narcissism in America, and it seems like narcissism is becoming a virtue instead of the self defense mechanism it is clinically defined as; Instead of a reaction to some harshness or unboundaried insanity, it is being passed down as a way of being alive and satisfied, one facebook photo post at a time.. The boomers made a hysteronic art of Narcissism while simultaneously railing against it in their parents, Gen X fought against it, crying that it hurt to be open but open was the requirement, but it appears that Gen Y will take the cake for unquestioned self reverence and adoration, life at the meeting place of Marketing and Self Worth... This is not to say there aren't effective or smart, so much is being made of how they are joiners and not acrimonious, but they take that as a kind of placation of others to buy time to turn their reverence back on themselves, to sink into a private little world of gawking and constant self evaluation and comparrison and facade.. somehow it feels so good... It's similar to how porn has overtaken sensuality in so many circles.. the new edgy is trash, which elevates it... and this isn't an arguement against an industry or freedom of expression, but a fear that the cheaper elements of that expression have gotten an upper hand and are seen as the height of intimacy and sensuousness to the unititiated.. kind of Dolly Parton as the paragon of self expression, when in the quiet smoulder of a quieter less brash imagination there might be so much more nuance and pleasure, but since it can't be seen without it's market value to the new self lovers, it has no value at all... sad really..

The cruel justice of an IPad IOS6

With my downloading of IOS 6 for this damn ipad a friend made me get to stay in touch with the world, I am confronted with a funny and sad kind of Karmic justice, proof of what a shitty little stop this life is.
Not that there aren't bigger bumps in the road, but in loosing Youtube, and this piece of shit won't give me any ways around it no matter how hard my efforts, to watch any video that doesn't come from the Apple Computer Company right now, I'm getting a taste of the censorship the Siamese workers experience putting this thing together in some sad place like guangdong. The sadness of the arrogance of the act, that a corporation is denying me access to basic portions of the internet experience since they made my portal, because they aren't making any money off of it one might infer, no matter what bullshit about not liking Flash Steve Jobs might have said, is a sad testamony to American domestic issues. Abroad it is a government that censors, no matter how liberal siam has become, or how enfranchised the vast majority of the people feel there, and here, in my country of birth, we are being controlled, quite literally as I write, by a computer company, and I try not to be doom and gloom, but in a pretty ghoulish and rediculously greedy way.. no matter how much Santa Monica hip and Cuppertino wisdom I am smugly being told I posses now with this machine, I am being reminded of the true wisdom of Bill Gates in creating a truly open place for innovation and dialogue, messy as it was, and I am pretty sure this is the last apple product I will ever buy... come on google, make a better tablet, would you please..