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Narcissismthe Philip Greenspun way |
A journalist from Il Mondo called me up. This is the
Italian equivalent of Business Week, published by Rizzoli.
Very authoritative. They were doing a New Year's story on the future
and interviewing 7 experts. Would I agree to be the expert on
computers and Internet?
"I guess so," I replied, "but wouldn't you really rather have Nicholas Negroponte? After all, he invented the Internet, CD-ROMs, multimedia, and, when you get right down to it, the computer."
"We tried to get Negroponte, but he refused to do it on such short notice."
Being a second (or fourth?) choice to Nicholas Negroponte swelled my head to such a fantastic degree that I created a new topic in my rdbms-backed discussion software: Ask Philip. This is where I'll keep prognostications and other bon mots that I draft from time to time.
Note: one good thing about the Il Mondo interview was that they hired Rob Silvers to take some pictures of me (they ran the two that you see on this page).
See Marcus Aurelius for more on this subject.
I am a 26 yr old woman, a narcisstic woman. I fall under many of these bahaviors, more then 5. What I find appalling is that on every website I go to, it makes us all of us look as though we are monsters. As though we wish and want to be this way. I disagree with what they say about no feeling, although I am narcisstic, I also love. I love my daughter and my son's with all my heart and yes, we do have hearts. We have been traumatized as children (not that, that is an exscuse) but i believe that there is hope - that I can have healthy relationships and a sucessful marriage. Please present this is a broader range of degree's of this disorder. I am sure there are people out there that will never come to terms with the disorder or that don't even realize they have it - but for people like myself....there is hope. Barbara Christensen
-- barbara christensen, March 5, 2002