Narcissism is on the rise. Our civilization is elevating the self into the highest object of love. This new narcissism is morphing into a religion which threatens to consume not just the narcissist, but everything else around them. Sam Vaknin argues that unless we tame and control our narcissism, the consequences for our culture could be devastating.

Growing numbers of people are becoming increasingly more narcissistic. And as our civilization rewards narcissism and veers towards it, the allure of the narcissism religion is growing exponentially. It is beginning to be widely and counterfactually glamorized - even in academe - as a positive adaptation. Counterfactually because narcissism ineluctably and invariably devolves into self-defeat and self-destruction. But how could narcissism be a religion? How could worship of the self stray off into faith?