Robert Burroughs- Narcissism

I was reading an article, maybe two weeks ago, about how our generation is being called “Generation Me.” It was about how we are in a narcissism epidemic, the cause of which is bad parenting (the intention being good parenting, of course) and the media, both of which promote self-love to an unhealthy point. Without getting too personal, I looked at myself and realized how true this is. I looked to those close to me, and realized how true this is. We are so narcissistic, and it’s getting to a point quite dangerous.
To relate it to religion and ecology, narcissism promotes materialism, and materialism is killing the planet. We are wasteful, specifically in America. Everyone has heard it, and yet we are so narcissistic that we think we can keep on doing what we are doing, as long as it makes us happy, and we’ll let others deal with the problem. The really bad narcissists would have you believe that they aren’t the cause of the problem at all; they like to point the blame elsewhere. And as we continue to raise more and more narcissists, we are in danger of creating a very destructive culture. We all need to become aware of the problem, and quickly, if we are going to be able to stop the monster before it’s out of our control.