Viva La Revolución

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus

The label ‘narcissist’ has become synonymous with exploitation and malevolence. Pigeonholing like this helps the targets of narcissism identify the source of their misery, but in the process threatens to rob them of personal responsibility.

As we explored the origins of narcissism in this book, it became apparent that a narcissist was the product of a system beyond their control. The people who controlled that system were also powerless at one point, themselves earlier creations of the same kind of system. This inevitably leads us to the question: Who do we point the finger at? In asking this, we are again reverting to...