Narcissism and Materialism: A Match Made in Hell
How feeling empty inside makes narcissists want to fill up on stuff.
- Narcissists feel empty on the inside and try to fill that emptiness with stuff.
- Psychologists say that narcissists like nice things for appearance's sake, but the need is deeper than that.
- People who have a robust sense of self should be less likely to be materialistic or hoarding.
Narcissism is characterized by a few fundamental traits that set it apart from other personality disorders. Perhaps easiest to see in the narcissist is that they are developmentally stunted individuals who can be of any chronological age.
We all get cranky and need to take a nap sometimes. But they are [what is commonly regarded as] "childish" [not "child-like", which is a wonderous and wonderful thing about human nature] in very fundamental ways, such as, seeing things from only their point of view; having little to no self-awareness; and lacking true empathy (here defined as being able to understand and connect with other people's feelings, thoughts, and actions). We've all seen the type at work, at school, in our families, and out there in the world.
Another related, fundamental character trait of narcissists is that, as adults living out a sentence of arrested development that began at a much younger age, they're not really people. It's not that they're aliens or nonhumans; they are biologically human beings like (hopefully) me and (hopefully) you, but they're not really persons, in the philosophical sense of a human being who has a self, with beliefs and intentions, with selfhood and a conscience. Tragically, they're more like "philosophical zombies" —imaginary beings that look like us and effectively mimic human behavior and emotions but are actually "dead" inside, similar to horror-film zombies only in that way.
In a physical, energetic sense, narcissists are like black holes, sucking into themselves everything around them in an attempt to fill the utter emptiness that comprises them. And this is where the materialism—or, when extreme, a tendency toward hoarding—comes into play. Psychologists have long noted that narcissists tend to enjoy the finer things in life—fancy meals at trendy restaurants, fine clothing, attractive partners, and flashy cars—and this tendency is usually portrayed as simply the narcissist wanting to project to the world an image of being attractive, successful —someone that others want to be around.
But I think this unhealthy obsession with materialism goes deeper for the narcissist. I do believe it's a fundamental need to try and fill up with stuff, to counter that deep-seated feeling of emptiness that comes from not having a sense of self, or any self-awareness, of not knowing what one believes or thinks or how one presents in the world unless there is constant mirroring from others.
I'm reminded of early modern philosopher George Berkeley's philosophical worry that if things existed only in the mind, then they might just "poof" disappear when one ceases to think about them. When I leave my house in the morning to go to work, does my house suddenly cease to exist once I'm focused on my commute and other things? Bishop Berekely, of course, overcame this philosophical worry with God: Have no fear because, even when we stop thinking about things in the world, their continued existence is assured by God's thinking about them.
In a sense, narcissists might feel like they would cease to exist without the constant reification from other people, from outside sources. Like plants need water, they need compliments, affirmations, and praise from without, because there's nothing within. By contrast, a healthy individual can spend time alone, can introspect, and feel confident that their self endures. For healthy people, their self-image is, of course, somewhat shaped by what the world tells them about themselves, but it is also composed from within, from an enduring sense of self that has independent thoughts, beliefs, intentions, and reflection.
On the surface, we see narcissists as self-absorbed and selfish, which they are. But they're not choosing to be this way. They are made this way, just as among belly buttons, some are innies and some are outies. Narcissists are psychological innies, drawing people, energy, attention, and stuff inward in an attempt to fill that inner void.
Healthy individuals, by contrast, are at least capable of being outies: Having a rich, full, well-developed self, they are able to focus outside themselves, on others' needs, wants, desires, dreams, and thoughts. In essence, you have to be a self to recognize another self. Wishing a narcissist could be more giving or empathic is like wishing your innie belly button were an outie. It's just not possible. It wasn't made that way.
Link between anxious attachment and materialistic values revealed in new psychology study
Research published in Personality and Individual Differences reveals a fascinating tie between individuals with anxious attachment styles and their tendency to indulge in status-signaling consumption — a behavior significantly brought on by materialistic values. This new research offers insights into the relationship between psychological attachment styles and consumer behavior.
Attachment theory, a cornerstone concept in psychology, explains how early life interactions with caregivers shape our adult relationships. This theory identifies three primary attachment styles: secure, anxious, and avoidant. Avoidant attachment is marked by a dismissal of relational needs and a focus on self-reliance. Secure attachment is characterized by trust and confidence in relationships, and contrasts sharply with anxious attachment —where individuals crave closeness and reassurance, often leading to relationship challenges.
While previous studies have delved into how these attachment styles influence various behaviors, including consumer choices, the specific connection between these styles, particularly anxious attachment, materialism, and status consumption — or, the ways in which people strive to improve their social standing through a pronounced consumption of products — remained underexplored.
The curiosity driving this study stemmed from a hypothesis and preexisting literature suggesting that anxious attachment styles might influence consumer behaviors — specifically the tendency to purchase status-signaling goods. This hypothesis was rooted in the observation that anxiously attached individuals might use material possessions to gain attention and reassurance in social scenarios, a behavior not typically associated with secure or avoidant attachment styles.
To explore this, researchers conducted two large-scale studies with a total of over 2000 participants recruited from Prolific Academic. They employed a survey methodology, where participants reported their attachment style, materialistic values, and tendencies towards status consumption. Simple, direct measures were used to assess these variables, with a focus on understanding the relationships between them. This approach aimed to reveal patterns and connections indicative of underlying psychological tendencies.
The findings were striking. Individuals with anxious attachment styles reported significantly higher levels of materialism and a greater inclination towards purchasing status-signaling goods compared to their counterparts with secure or avoidant attachment styles. This behaviour was mediated by their materialistic values — or, simply put, the findings suggest that individuals may use status consumption to cope with insecurities in relationships.
It is important to note certain limitations in this study. The reliance on self-reported data can introduce biases, and the cross-sectional nature of the study also means that while relationships between variables can be identified, causality cannot be firmly established. Additionally, the study’s sample may not be entirely representative of the general population, as a small percentage of participants reported an anxious attachment style. The researchers acknowledge that socioeconomic factors, which were not controlled for, could also influence these findings.
Still, the research opens up avenues for further exploration into the intricate ways in which our past experiences and emotional make-up shape our consumer habits and
“Individuals with an anxious attachment style differ from those with secure and avoidant attachment styles in the propensity to consume status-signaling goods, with their materialistic values constituting a plausible explanation for this difference,” the researchers noted — highlighting that this insight not only enriches psychological and consumer behavior theories, but may have practical implications for things like marketing strategies and consumer education.
Agata Gasiorowska, Michael Folwarczny, and Tobias Otterbring at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Reykjavik University, and the University of Agder authored this study. It was published under the title “Anxious and status signaling: Examining the link between attachment style and status consumption and the mediating role of materialistic values“.
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AT LEAST AT LEAST 30 MILLION NPD/BPD/INSANE PSYCHOPATHS & NARCISSISTS!!
(What is the number/ percentage AFTER the c0vid SScamdemic?!)
Always pretending to be in control.
Psychotic and delusional lying.
Childishly saying "no you" to ever person and thing that exposes them and then acting arrogant which includes everything exposing them here.
Constant slander and lying accusations.
Constant denial of their crimes.
Arrogant grinning to appear confident when they are really scared.
Blood drunken induced psychopathy.
Violence, torture, and murder.
Declaring themselves brilliant for acting like demented and violent liars.
Using sadistic, murderous, and cannibalistic women as a weapon.
Blood drunken praising of themselves.
Financing liars and slanderers.
Financing propagandists to dominate the internet.
Control the perception of "public opinion" through paid propagandists.
Claiming gang stalking is a democratic process. Organizing and ganging up on individuals in larger numbers and calling it democracy.
Gang stalkers acting like their victims are in a court room where the gang stalkers operate as the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, and jury.
Dictating lies with covert violence.
Calling the use of self defense against them "dictating lies with covert violence."
Psychotic insolence and terrorism.
Vandalism.
Electronic vandalism like hacking vehicles and electronics to cause them to break.
Electronic harassment.
Recruiting local gang stalkers who use electronic weapons.
Insolent and demented mockeries.
Censorship.
Framing people.
Stealing other peoples writings, claiming them as their own, and using them as bait to target people in a controlled environment.
Poisoning people.
Stalking.
Electronic spying.
Violently attacking people and then running away and calling the people who expose them false accusers. That is them violently attacking people and calling their victims false accusers. That is a form of gaslighting.
Using more violence to dictate their lies and false accusations.
Reverse psychology like the media pretending to be against Trump or Trump pretending to be against the media. The entire Trump psyop is using reverse psychology.
Political theater. Democratic and Republican shills covertly working together to spread division.
Divide and Conquer.
Republican cult members falsely accusing people of being liberal shills for exposing corrupt republican politicians
Democratic cult members falsely accusing people of being conservative shills for exposing corrupt democratic politicians.
Criminals arrogantly pretending they are in control. Fake omnipotence.
The weaker and more fearful they are the more they finance shills to defend them with boldness and arrogance. Fake omnipotence.
When they are scared they murder children.
Claiming they are gods or claiming god does not exist because they really do murder children and if "god" existed then he would stop them and this is all because the Creator expects good people to do something about it.
When these criminals get killed they retaliate by killing innocent people or children.
Charlie Sheen's tactic of saying the word "winning" over and over again which is what Trump and his QAnon cult members do.
Using the placebo effect to induce mindless arrogance when they are scared.
Attacking someone and claiming before they attack that person that their victim will react by exposing the ones attacking them and then the attackers claim to be all knowing. Part of their fake omnipotence and fake precognition.
Falsely accusing people of crimes they believe people are going to do in the future.
Pretending to "know what's going to happen."
Claiming that psychotic behaviors and insanity is genius.
Claiming that deep stupidity is genius.
Claiming that using violence and gang stalking is genius.
Making bold false claims. Bold lying.
Radiating vague one word spells at people.
Vague denial. Denial of information without debating any of the facts.
Them saying "NO YOU" to everything you say about them. "I know you are but what am I"
Evil people claiming that their evil associates are innocent. Defending each other.
Evil people trying to hijack opposition against evil like the Freemasons of 1776 or the alternative media that claims to oppose the NWO and then completely ignores those running the NWO.
Making lying accusations against people who really expose criminals.
Child murderers and pedophiles calling people that expose them false accusers.
Falsely accusing the victims usually of their crimes and usually only after they get called out first.
Claiming that if you are aware of evil then you are in on it. It is like saying if a woman was raped and then she exposed her rapist that because she had information on her rapist that she must have been in on it. They are really that insane and do claim this.
Calling people greedy for exposing their financial persecutors.
Calling people violent for using self defense.
Claiming that violence cannot be used against war criminals, gang stalkers, poisoners, pedophiles, child traffickers.
Promoting "Peaceful Protests" against murderers, war criminals, and lawless tyrants.
Claiming that pacifism against tyrants solves tyranny.
Claiming that exposing evil people is an act of violence.
Falsely accusing people of being trolls for calling out shills.
Shills spreading fear and threatening the destruction of society when they get exposed.
Gang stalkers making up the most insane lies like claiming they control the royals and nobles they work for.
Inverted witchcraft or engineered lies.
Reflective witchcraft or engineered lies.
Radiating doom spells on society and individuals.
Sabotaging a persons life through covert methods like poison, financial persecution, violating rights, violating privacy, electronic vandalism, slander, and also bribing or corrupting people and turning people around the victim into gang stalkers.
Christians threatening destruction on society and saying its because the Bible says so.
Christians claiming to own "belief in a creator."
Gang stalkers calling their victims "sinners."
Gang stalkers claiming that their gang stalking is "punishment from god."
Christians calling people Satanists for exposing Satanism in the Bible and Christianity.
Christians threatening society and telling people they will burn in hell if they don't bow down to Jesus.
Christians who are also gang stalkers and murderous cannibals calling themselves "sinners" and saying things like "only god can judge" for a false piety and fake humbleness.
Denial of self defense.
Demanding that people "love their enemies."
Claiming that killing an attacker in self defense is a sacrifice.
Claiming that defending your life is the same as the initial attacker. Someone assaults you so you fight back and then they claim both are equally guilty.
Ignoring context.
Distortion of context.
Ignoring motives.
Claiming that calling a fascist male bisexual rapist a "faggot" is homophobia and offensive. The correct definition of a faggot is a male bisexual rapist who rapes other men for control and most male members of the NWO are faggots.
Claiming that exposing racist cults of supremacists who target individuals of different races is racism.
Using gang stalkers and shills to attack people as distractions and as a defense for high level criminals.
Claiming that ignoring the annoying low level shills and gang stalkers means the low level gang stalkers control a person because they are not focusing on them.
Child murderers and murderous cannibals claiming that naming and exposing them is the most evil thing there is.
Attempting to hijack facts and truth by agreeing with it and then mix the truth with lies and completely made up information.
Trolls latching onto people who expose evil as an attempt to make the legitimate person seem like they are associated with trolls.
Known liars agreeing with truth to make the truth seem like a lie as a form of reverse psychology through a fake association.
Demanding proof while completely ignoring existing evidence and proof.
Claiming that evil people are in prison when they are not.
Falsely accusing people of being false accusers for exposing criminals that other criminals claim are dead and or in prison when they are not. They are this insane.
Dictating their fantasy world and delusions onto others.
Acting demented, childish, and insolent to annoy or enrage people.
Claiming that exposing gang stalkers is gang stalking.
Claiming individuals who expose gang stalkers is gang stalking and completely ignoring the meaning of the words "gang" and "individual"
Claiming that exposing the murderous gang stalkers is a "murderous plot against them"
Pretending they are brainwashed.
Claiming that women cannot be evil.
Gang stalkers claiming that only wealthy or famous people can be evil.
Calling a person a false accuser and basing it on their claim that they are "possessed" and therefore innocent of their evil actions.
Claiming they don't have to pay back for damage and thefts they caused or did while they are "demonically possessed" and then saying they have "repented."
Claiming that taking a vacation from gang stalking is "repentance."
Blaming evil technologies for gang stalking.
Falsely accusing people of being Jews for not generalizing and blaming all Jews.
Blaming Russia for all evils.
Blaming "Satan" for everything evil.
Blaming "Sorcerers" for gang stalking.
Claiming its "supernatural" and claiming there is nothing that can be done to combat it.
Christians saying that their god and Jesus will take care of the evil. Spreading apathy.
The moment the Black Nobility get scared they finance thousands of YouTube shills that blame all Jews for all evils and if you don't agree they claim you work for Jews.
Claiming "life is an illusion."
SSadistic SShills and Media !! (A Perishworthy World of Fakes/ Narcissists/ Psychopaths/ pedoSSods/ Subhumans/ Liars/ Fakes/ Murderers/ Lowlives/ SScum & SSludge That Should've Never Been Born!!)
ALL Fraud Will Be Unveiled To The Whole World And Punished With KARMA!!
The scope of this blogpost can be substantiated, evidenced and expounded infinitely when reviewed in light of the excellent wealth of information and documentation contained in:
World Crime Syndicate
and
Ordo Ab Chao
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Spy Cables reveal Israel’s Mossad tactics
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https://www.npr.org/2020/01/13/795952989/doj-says-21-saudi-trainees-being-expelled-from-u-s-over-jihadist-child-porn
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-021-09943-4#:~:text=As%20Islam%20is%20associated%20with,expense%20to%20combat%20this%20issue.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33994666/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnJa7wWS74E
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220906-jinns-and-glass-palaces-how-saudis-dystopian-desert-city-borders-on-the-occult/
https://soundcloud.com/mirwais-rahimi-737968388/satanic-ritual-in-saudi-arabia
https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/nation-of-islam-and-the-freemasons
https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/2002-iraqi-intel-reported-wahhabis-are-of-jewish-origin
https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/modern-saudi-arabia-and-the-era-of-post-wahhabism
https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/isreal-created-hamas
https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/psychedelics-and-fascism-from-mk-ultra-to-esalen-and-silicon-valley
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https://henrymakow.com/2024/05/mike-stone--humanity-despises-truth.html
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