Why Is Our Society Attracted To Narcissism?

[@jamesjohnson5341]

You are a great raconteur Keven....as I have stated before. You can certainly hold an audience....a true orator! Very interesting topic and well presented. Thank you Keven. James ❤

[@KevenTalks]

Thank you James!! 🙏

[@paranormal9814]

She's not someone I think of often. Im glad she put her life back together after all her problems e.g. jail. Gays can take lessons from her

[@SABOREAME68]

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Narcissists often project an aura of confidence, charisma, and charm, which can be alluring to many, that don't own that charisma; or are delusional.

[@alexanderpons9246]

Good analysis Keven and it seems as you did stayed objective looking at it all! By the way see if you can fetch the movie or docuseries(not sure) that was done when Martha Stewart went to jail and Cybil Shepard played her, it will be interesting to see how that was played compared to the Netflix version. I must say Keven that unfortunately what ends up happening is that because of economical gain or fame many people all around the narcissist enables them in order for them all to profit so to me they are as fault too. P.S. I looked it up, it was a TV Movie called Martha Inc. starring Cybil Shepard as Martha Stewart and it was televised in 2003.

[@alexwallace6120]

Yes. Martha Stewart did live in my home state of Ct. I don't where. Ct is a small new England st, with suburbs, and country and even the Shore(Ocean). Most of it is wealthy, as some people work in Manhattan(NYC) and live in CT. But also ,our 3 major cities that are not beautiful and filled with poverty and crime. Martha is a narcist, and has built a major empire of cooking and entertaining. She guilty of that stock trading stuff. I like some her videos on cooking yet I do not place her up on a pedestal. Trump is a narcissist and demented and a convicted criminal who is to be our next president.

[@Pat7629]

The truth is most major CEOs and business owners of huge corporations are shrewd business people. They are generally not warm and fuzzy people smiling all day long. Regarding Donald Trump, people can't seem to separate his directness and temperment with his ability to run a business. The two are mutually exclusive. The guy is a billionaire and knows how to make deals and run a business well clearly.

[@davidwoodford1814]

Interesting parallels. I’m removing of Shakespeare’s Richard lll. Read it again or see Ian McCallum’s version. Lots of interesting parallels.

[@luminiferous1960]

I always enjoy your insights on the topics you discuss. The parallels you drew between Martha Stewart and other narcissistic personalities like Trump and Michael Jackson are interesting and quite accurate. I agree that their narcissism is a defense mechanism to overcome their deep seated insecurities and feelings of inferiority by outwardly projecting supreme confidence, superiority and complete lack of insecurities to the point that they not only delude others, but ultimately delude themselves. I believe that many of the die-hard supporters of these narcissists are plagued by insecurities and feelings of inferiority similar to those that the narcissist is hiding, and see the surface confidence and superiority of the narcissists as how they would like to be, but have not been successful in achieving themselves. They believe that by seeing the narcissist as a role model and giving them total unconditional support as a follower, they can share in some measure in the narcissist's accomplishments and superiority. They essentially worship the narcissist as their savior. One never wants to acknowledge that one's golden idol has feet of clay. Hence their vociferous anger at and denial of any accusations that their idol has any flaws or has done something wrong. Any accusations against their idol are seen as personal accusations against themselves because their very identity and world view are totally invested in the purported superiority of their idol and the idol's mission. I'll end with a personal observation about Martha Stewart. When she started to become famous for her homemaking TV show, I always thought of her as a case of life imitating art because I always thought of her as having modeled herself after a more sophisticated version of the character Sue Ann Nivens, the hostess of The Happy Homemaker show, played by Betty White on the Mary Tyler Moore Show in the early '70s. The character Sue Ann Nivens was a two-faced narcissist who presented herself as a sweet and practically perfect homemaking expert who could handle any situation with effortless grace and a smile, which was a sharp contrast to her competitive, backbiting, prickly, sarcastic and sexually voracious true nature that those who worked with her saw behind the cameras. You can't tell me that this description of the character Sue Ann Nivens and her The Happy Homemaker show from the Wikipedia doesn't sound like their talking about the TV show Martha Stewart Living: The program delivers cooking and decorating advice to housewives, often on ludicrous theme shows such as "A Salute to Fruit" and "What's All This Fuss About Famine?". She is a perfectionist, remarking in a season four episode titled "The Dinner Party" that she'd rather flush her Veal Prince Orloff down a toilet than serve it reheated. Sue Ann is full of helpful hints for all occasions and always ready to make lemons into lemonade; for instance, she suggests buying colorful, happy goldfish as companions for the infirm and then, when the goldfish die, using them as houseplant fertilizer. Although Sue Ann Nivens presents an image of sweetness and perfection onscreen, she is actually sardonic, man-obsessed, and very competitive. 😆

[@KevenTalks]

The goldfish idea is hilarious! Genius. Speaking of life imitating art, there's also an element of art imitating life with Martha - it wasn't until making this video that I realized Bree from Desperate Housewives HAD to have been modeled after Martha Stewart. Bree plays the role of the perfect housewife next door, so perfect that she's actually flawed in her inability to be vulnerable and authentic. At one point she creates a catering business that becomes wildly successful, just as it happened with Martha... Anyway, thanks for watching as always and for your insightful commentary!

[@luminiferous1960]

@@KevenTalks Yes, when I watched Desperate Housewives I always thought Bree was modeled after Martha Stewart, and not in a flattering way. Have you ever seen the SNL parodies of Martha Stewart played by Ana Gasteyer? They're hilarious.

[@KevenTalks]

@@luminiferous1960 I have not! I gotta look it up lol

[@OLDS98]

You started out slow, but it got on quickly track and it built up and it was interesting. The gay community has a lot of people in community with this type of personality. People get drawn to this type of thing sadly. Yes, Mr. Trump is the same way and he is doing it again right now. A lot of people fell for it and were drawn to it. Not getting political here. I am just sharing.

[@winnmatthews]

Not even a fan of Trump here, but glad he won after the shitty last four years under Biden/Harris