Narcism Epidemic

Few weeks ago before i got the dengue fever (that took 2 weeks of my precious time) I visit a book store and found an interesting book. I didn't buy it due to its quite expensive price, but i read the review on the back cover and took a photo.

Yes, that book's title is "Living in the Age of Entitlement - The Narcissism Epidemic"

These days we surrounded by people that really really proud of themselves, either subconsciously or even 100% sober that they are proud of themselves too much. And loving it excessively. You can meet these kind of person everywhere, in your school, office, shoping centre, mall, facebook, everywhere !

Is it technology that make people like this? or because this is the age who people really need to be recognized? or it just happen?

In my opinion, despite of technology like digital camera, cellphone, or facebook/friendster that tremendously develop these day. Deep inside we already born with some narcissistic. And like the book title Age of Entitlement, I totally agree with the book title eventough i've not read it.

The easiest example, now we can see lot of young girls take naked photos of theirself, only for fun, only because they love their body, people say it's because of the technology, but i don't believe it. (Not only ladies, man also has narcissistic actually, but i prefer talk about girls, can't imagine seeing naked guy, HOEKKK)

What happen if digital camera invented 1-2 century before?
I believe if it was happen, now we can see narcissistic photo from the ladies of that age now.
Technology is only the catalyst, narcissistic is one of our nature as we prefer some praise than critics.

Narcissistic is become lifestyle these days, hedonist (yeach in my opinion hedonist is one of the main cause of narcissistic) people show of theirself not only for getting attention from other people, but because they love it, they love to exploit theirself to the edge without consider any risk of it. Narcissistic is very risky, starting from the early beginning, the origin of narcissistic is coming from a story:

(from wikipedia)

Roman version

In the tale told by Ovid, thought to have been based on Parthenius' version but altered in order to broaden its appeal,^[4] Echo, a nymph, falls in love with a vain youth named Narcissus, who was the son of the blue Nymph Liriope of Thespia. The river god Cephisus had once encircled Leirope with the windings of his streams, and thus trapping her, had seduced the nymph, who gave birth to an exceptionally beautiful boy. Concerned about the welfare of such a beautiful child, Lirope consulted the prophet Teiresias regarding her son's future. Teiresias told the nymph that Narcissus would live to a ripe old age, "if he didn't come to know himself."

When he had reached "his sixteenth year," (fifteen years of age, by modern reckoning) every youth and girl in the town was in love with him, but he haughtily spurned them all.

One day when Narcissus was out hunting stags, Echo stealthily followed the handsome youth through the woods, longing to address him but unable to speak first. When Narcissus finally heard footsteps and shouted "Who's there?", Echo answered "Who's there?" And so it went, until finally Echo showed herself and rushed to embrace the lovely youth. He pulled away from the nymph and vainly told her to leave him alone. Narcissus left Echo heartbroken and she spent the rest of her life in lonely glens, pining away for the love she never knew, until only her voice remained.

Nemesis heard this prayer and sent Narcissus his punishment. He came across a deep pool in a forest, from which he took a drink. As he did, he saw his reflection for the first time in his life and fell in love with the beautiful boy he was looking at, not realizing it was himself. Eventually, after pining away for a while, he realized that the image he saw in the pool was a reflection of himself. Realizing that he could not act upon this love, he tore at his dress and beat at his body, his life force draining out of him. As he died, the bodyless Echo came upon him and felt sorrow and pity. His soul was sent to "the darkest hell" and the narcissus flower grew where he died. It is said that Narcissus still keeps gazing on his image in the waters of the river Styx.[4]

So even it is only myth story, the origin of narcissistic is kill someone, hahaha, narcissistic can kill some one, beware ! control your self =p

Cheers
X.o.X.e.X.i (SO SEXY) -> My narcissistic nick name

Virtual Insanity

By Jamiroquai (Travelling Without Moving album - 1997)

Oh yeah, what we're living in (let me tell ya)
It's a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big that should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we'll be doing for us
And I'm giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can't see
I can't breathe
No more will we be
And nothing's going to change the way we live
Cos' we can always take but never give
And now that things are changing for the worse,
See, its a crazy world we're living in
And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these -

Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to, be govern'd by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground

And I'm thinking what a mess we're in
Hard to know where to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made
And now every mother, can choose the colour
Of her child
That's not nature's way
Well that's what they said yesterday
There's nothing left to do but pray
I think it's time I found a new religion
Waoh - it's so insane
To synthesize another strain
There's something in these
Futures that we have to be told.

Futures made of virtual insanity - now
Always seem to, be govern'd by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground

Now there is no sound
If we all live underground
And now it's virtual insanity
Forget your virtual reality
Oh, there's nothing so bad.
I know yeah

Of this virtual insanity, we're livin in.
Has got to change, yeah
Things, will never be the same.
And I can't go on
While we're livin' in oh, oh virtual insanity
Oh, this world, has got to change
Cos I just, I just can't keep going on, it was virtual.
Virtual insanity that we're livin' in, that we're livin' in
That virtual insanity is what it is

Futures made of virtual insanity - now
Always seem to, be govern'd by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground

Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity

Virtual Insanity is what we're living in

I Hate Messenger

BUZZ

Do you have a messenger? (such as yahoo messenger, icq, blackberry messenger, gtalk, msn, etc)
I bet you must have at least one. I have 2 not including facebook, friendster, and twitter.

And i just realized, messenger is evil, they make people become more robot, people evolve to be a robot, it's not a problem if you think robot is better than human, but it's a big problem for me. It's another potential thread for human being.

It's true that messenger help us to communicate, it can cut the distance and cost. But... err.....

How many friends do you have in your messenger list? 10/20/200? And how many that you chat with recently at least for saying HI in this month?
Most people thinking subconciusly that their friends are always keep in touch by messenger. And the problem with that subconsciusly are when they are meeting in persons, they think these friends always here in my messenger list, so it's not very important to meet in a flesh. Where's the warm of friendship? and suddenly they becomes only people in your friend list. Where is our humanity?
If you don't want to lose it, start to say hi to everyone in your friends list oftenly and make they are as really friends not just only people appear in your friends list ^_^

And do you realize that messenger take more time only for not really important conversation? Sometimes it can took an hour only for conversation you can finish 10-15 minutes on the phone. And you take more attention to your computer screen, act as your friends are inside that monitor. And at last you prefer to conversation with text, type what you want to tell more than oral conversation.
Because you think with chat/typing you have more time to thinking what you want to tell and make a better expression. And the things become different when you meet people in real world. Where's yourself in online chat? Do you have another personality? So pity then if it's true.
Start to meet person in a flesh if you a shy guy/girl !

Btw I wrote this note, but my messenger is still online 24/7, so I can't blame if you want to be a robot because we are robot generation, we have been enslaved by technology.

It's just another Virtual Insanity

BUZZ

Disclaimer
I'm not judging here, so please dont mind above story if you think you are clever enough to control yourself, I just post this notes just to make people aware, because there are some person i know become online people and leaving their humanity.

p.s.
When i write this, coincidentally i have conversation with a friend, a friend of mine that i've not seen for a loongggg time, friend that supposed to be "only" friends in my facebook forever. But because we share common messenger, hahaha, we get closer now (it's already 2 month since our first meet in messenger right?) ^_^ and i really appreciate my messenger for that reason. hahaha. And from that chat i realize that I love my messenger, I love evil because there's alwasy good side of an evil. hehehe.