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> Pinter’s Provocation: Self Love in America

29 December 2005, 17:56

Mr. Moses: You are confusing ’self-love’ with narcissism. True love of self can only be expressed through active service to others, the others being all the people one holds dear, & for the those of us who have great hearts, all life itself is part of this love. Service to anything else that disguises itself as ’love of self’ is mere indulgence, senseless power games, intellectual and as well as physical masturbation, ego-centrism. Mr. Pinter is obviously asking Americans if they know the difference between love of self and adolescent narcissism.
Your article, sir, answers that question quite resoundingly, I might in add, in the negative.