instead. In this tale of good versus evil, colonialism is transformed from a traumatic invasion into a benign settlement that brought the gift of civilization. That same psychologist defined a narcissist to me as “someone whose inner world feels inadequate and so they overcompensate with grand displays of wealth or prowess or kindness. They are overcompensating in the external world to fill in the interior hole, and sometimes that results in exploitation of others.” Narcissism, then, is a misunderstood disorder, for it is not necessarily intentionally malicious nor is it born of true love of
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