A singularity is what scientists refer to when speaking about that which we call "black holes." A human singularity is what I'm referring to as a human black hole, or what street vernacular of the 1990s developed as an energy vampire: someone who sucks all of the joy, light, and energy out of the surroundings of the immediate space that they happen to occupy. They are takers, self-deluded about their own greatness, their own intelligence, their own importance; they are not only the true centers of their own universes but all that exists around them they see as theirs: their food, their sustenance, their fodder, theirs to do what they want with. An element of the potential of homo sapiens sapiens has been nurtured to allow it to often see themselves as the destined master of all it purveys, as "God's gift" to the universe. This what Daniel Quinn referred to when he coined the terms "taker" in his transformative book, Ishmael.
The rise of the phenomenon known as "narcissism" seems a natural progression to have arisen out of the "me-generation" mentality that the captains of capitalism have pushed upon us--just as the "borderline nation" of sociopathic behavior is a natural (and desired) product (objective) of narcissistic resistance to to the unrelenting oppression of systematic brainwashing (acculturation). It should come as no surprise that the effect of insidious fear-mongered would produce a population of paranoid, neurotic isolationists--both individually and collectively--of which narcissism should only be recognized as the natural expression of one of the most extreme versions of "me-generation" individualism: human singularity spun out of control.
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