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Egoism
Egoism, egocentrism, narcissism, self love, self centrism and similar terms usually refer to a highly harmful disease that makes one preoccupied with oneself, put himself before others, glorify himself and/or pursue purely his own personal self interest, i.e. more or less being a fascist with fascist radius encompassing only one's own body. This condition is extremely common e.g. in Americans, but lately -- under advancing capitalism -- also in whole first world.
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? Why the fuck do people obsess about forcing their ugly faces onto others?
- Decorating one's body obsessively, especially with tattoos, wild hairstyles, clothes that serves other purpose than pure protection from weather, for example a suit etc.
- Putting one's name in (or near) the title of his creation: one of the most famous examples being the Shit Faggot's Game Of Civilization. Yes, Linux counts too; even though Linus 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, 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 think 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, also saying shit like "to love others you first have to love yourself" etc., honestly I don't know who comes up with such crap lol.
- Being a capitalist; by definition a capitalist only cares about himself, capitalist is incapable of love or wanting any benefit for anyone else than himself, he only benefits 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.
- "Personal pronouns".
- Making (or allowing others to make) art that glorifies you, e.g. documentaries, books etc.
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