Lacking a stable and confident sense of identity, the narcissist hunts for meaning in therapy, self-help, sex, or radical politics.

From To understand the woke, you have to understand The Culture of Narcissism by Mark Judge.  

The nature of the Left in 2022 is rooted more in psychology than political science. Specifically, liberalism is suffering from narcissism.

To understand how, it’s essential to grasp the true meaning of narcissism. In its clinical definition, narcissism is not self-love — it’s the opposite. The narcissist isn’t full of ego. Rather, he has no real sense of self. Where the self would be is emptiness, which results in a mad effort to fill the psyche with meaning. Lacking a stable and confident sense of identity, the narcissist hunts for meaning in therapy, self-help, sex, or radical politics. None of these can give meaning to empty lives.

In his seminal 1979 work The Culture of Narcissism, the brilliant social scientist Christopher Lasch argued that the human personality, its psychology itself, had changed over the course of the later 20th century. Americans had transformed from strong and well-adjusted people to those evincing a "minimal" self — a personality that is weak and dependent on government, corporations, radical politics, sex, and bureaucracies for a sense of meaning.

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When one observes the behavior of the new modern woke, Lasch’s words are stunningly prescient. The college kids literally screaming like toddlers when faced with a speaker they don’t like, the transgender people asserting that their truth is all that matters, the you-go-girl amateur psychologists helping mentally wobbly people to demand respect even if they haven’t earned it. This is the world The Culture of Narcissism predicted. These aren’t the old communists with their "dialectical materialism" and pseudoscience about the tectonic plates of evolutionary social change. These are babies with no secure sense of self throwing tantrums. A comment on a YouTube video I recently came across is very telling. The clip shows some colorful teenage dancers in a 1980s club from 40 years ago. Being in college at the time, I was actually scanning YouTube looking for my old self. Yet what caught my eye was a comment below the video, a remark left by what I assume was a younger viewer: "They all look so confident."

The woke are not egotistical, assertive activists. They are those without a self, without history, and without confidence. 

Pertinent to the cultural vandalism on display yesterday by two temper tantrum throwing misfits without a core identity.  This might be there only moment of attention in their lives - a negative attention in response to a tantrum that they wish to pretend is a principled stand.  

Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ painting was vandalized with tomato soup by two anti-fossil fuel protestors in London.

The protestors then glued themselves to the wall beneath the painting.

As for damages, authorities say the painting is “unharmed.” pic.twitter.com/jqDNS939EB

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 14, 2022