Narcissism is clinically recognized as a personality disorder. People who score too high on the scale can be dangerous. In Rich’s book, The Attributes, he writes, “Excessive narcissists are rarely loyal—loyalty requires trust and a sense of safety—so their tribes are inherently unstable: Healthy members tend not to stay long, and new ones are let in only when they show the requisite deference. Those who do leave usually suffer a disproportionate amount of wrath from the person to whom they once deferred—because defectors are considered enemies. The energy and effort of the highly narcissistic
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