# Egoism

*Egoism*, *egocentrism*, *narcissism*, *self love*, *self centrism* and similar terms usually refer to a highly [harmful](harmful.md) [disease](disease.md) that makes one preoccupied with oneself, put himself before others, glorify himself and/or pursue purely his own personal [self interest](self_interest.md), i.e. more or less being a [fascist](fascism.md) with fascist radius encompassing only one's own body. This condition is extremely common e.g. in [Americans](usa.md), but lately -- under advancing [capitalism](capitalism.md) -- also in whole first world. It's tragic but not surprising in the slightest, what else to expect under a system whose core principles are self interest, only caring about self and glorification of greed?

Some signs of egoism include:

- **Drawing someone's own face (or letting someone else do it) and then using it for a profile picture**. "Modern" soydevs on twitter and blogs are so guilty of this, especially the "game devs" with pixel art portraits etc., it's so narcissistic and cringe you just want to puke. Why would anyone humble even allow someone to make a statue of him, allowing the danger of cult of personality and becoming a [hero](hero_culture.md)? Why the fuck do people obsess about forcing their ugly faces onto others?
- **Decorating one's body obsessively, trying to adopt an "image"**, especially with [tattoos](tattoo.md), wild hairstyles, clothes that serves other purpose than pure protection from weather, for example a **[suit](suit.md)** etc. A good man will never try to look much different from how he'd look naturally, he will minimize effort put into caring about looks and will try to avoid the danger of applying manipulative psychological tricks such as appeal by looks.
- **Putting one's name in (or near) the title of his creation**: one of the most famous examples being the *Shit Moron's Game Of Civilization*. Yes, [Linux](linux.md) counts too; even though [Linus](torwalds.md) didn't name it himself, he just waited for someone else to do it for him and then didn't protest; he also joked about it, trying to make it look OK, though without success (see below).
- **Egoism masked as [joking](jokes.md)** (see also **[humorwashing](humorwashing.md)**), i.e. doing something egoistic and then pretending to do it for the sake of a joke; for example in the book *World of Warcraft Diary* the author *X* puts a huge quote of himself on one page and jokingly writes under it *"X quoting X in his own book"* -- hahaha we laughed ok? It's not egoism, it's done for a joke, BTW the quote will stay there. The author here thinks he is smart as he thinks this achieves two things: promoting himself while also making him look like someone with a sense of humor. In fact it just makes him look like the most egocentric bastard.
- **[Assertiveness](assertiveness.md)**.
- **Giving oneself special names**. Making a quick Internet handle is cool for practical purposes, inventing an artistic name or even changing it legally is just an inflated ego.
- **Talking about oneself too much**, turning any conversation into a conversation about himself, signs of this include for example starting sentences with "As an X, I think ..."; as in "As a professional game designer I think ...".
- **Being a [capitalist](capitalism.md)**; by definition a capitalist only cares about himself, the only true value for him is self interest and he thinks that all other values stem from it (that's fundamentally why he accepts capitalism, he believes everyone thinks like that), hence capitalist is incapable of [love](love.md) or wanting any benefit for anyone else than himself, he can only ever pretend to do so if he sees it will benefit him in some way, he will only benefit others if he sees it will somehow lead to his own benefit in the future (this applies even to for example to caring about his own family etc.).
- **Using licenses that require giving credit**, such as [CC-BY-SA](cc_by_sa.md).
- **Arriving late (bad timekeeping)**: by arriving late you're wasting the time of others and saving your own time, implying you think your time is more important, it's basically the same as physically beating someone. A good man will plan to arrive at least half an hour earlier so that even if he gets late, he'll still be on time, and if by some extreme miracle he still arrives late, he must pay the other one money or give him some other gift, for example free sex in case of woman.
- **"Personal pronouns".** Also inventing weird sexes and identities etc.
- **Making (or allowing others to make) art that glorifies you**, e.g. documentaries, books etc. You always have to oppose making any documentary, movie, statue and other kinds of works that would glorify you, even just slightly.
- **Being a [celebrity](hero_culture.md)**: this one without any exceptions. A well known man may not necessarily be a celebrity, but it is almost always the case, it would have to be someone who became famous while trying as hard as possible to not become famous. No, that one favorite celebrity of yours is not an exception to this. No, not even when he looks like a good man and when you've seen documentaries in which everyone said he's a humble man and when you've read he gives money to charity and hugs trees and saves puppies and feeds children in Africa.
- **[Virtue signaling](virtue_signaling.md)**.
- ...

Remember, **to love others you mustn't love yourself too much**, it helps if you hate yourself. Ideally you should love everyone equally, yourself and others too, but by loving yourself more you are hurting others while loving yourself less you only hurt yourself -- a truly [selfless](selflessness.md) man will rather choose to hurt himself than others, so it's always better to try to love yourself less.

## See Also

- [humblebrag](humblebrag.md)