You cannot build community in a culture that overtly & covertly rewards narcissism with attention, money, status and power.
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Community also requires the kind of patience, inner strength, and vulnerability born of functioning emotional maturity, especially over time.
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Empathy is nurtured like a garden. If not tended to, weeds of greed, apathy, and malice will spread. This is why education in ethics and other points of view is so important.
It is why storytelling is life-saving and life-changing
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It often requires longer arcs of time. Experience is a main ingredient, but not the only one
And: Wisdom is anti-narcissism.
To be wise, you need to
1) learn from your mistakes
and
2) *do better* next time.
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A narcissist avoids accountability at all costs and will blame everyone else but himself.
There is no *do better* in narcissism. There is only "me me me". And a culture that constantly rewards "me me me" has no functioning concept (or system) of accountability.
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So, if you want community, stop rewarding what does not serve community.
Grow your garden within *and* build a community that allows you to be in communion with others. 6/End
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