Do you ever look around and wonder, “What happened to all the normal people?”.
In today’s ultra-stylized popular culture, more and more people seem to adorn themselves with tattoos, body piercings, designer fashions, and high-tech gadgets. Every time I turn around I meet someone who thinks they are the next big thing. Musicians, Filmmakers, Artists, Designers, most of which are wannabe’s chasing down this “Rockstar” image. I even see this behavior in fields you wouldn’t expect, like Entrepreneurs, Technology Professionals, and even Gaming Nerds, who are the last group of people that I’d expect to have an overdeveloped sense of ego considering their place in society. The Internet allows them all to create and nurture this image, and the expectation is that they are “undiscovered” geniuses, and that some day they will “make it” in whatever field they are pursuing. Of course most of these people end up just being miserable, and never amounting to anything. But what is it about our culture that has created this narcissistic compulsion in people?