The problem with narcissism is that it leads to meaninglessness

Modern culture, especially pop culture, is narcissistic, exemplified by the Kardashians and their hip hop husbands and rap boyfriends. They believe everything exits for their own pleasure and delight. "They walk the earth as in a garden planted only for them." (Hegel)

But the Kardashians, their supposedly booty-obsessed boyfriends (it seems more like a racial statement against trim booty), and their gullible followers don't realize that when the narcissistic drug wears off meaninglessness awaits them. I think of the obese end of the equally narcissistic Marlon Brando looking for meaning in food and leftist causes (although he actually had talent early on).

As Nietzsche and his 20th century followers worried about, the philosophical problem with narcissism is that it leads to meaninglessness. Religious meaning in life is lost, and a narcissistic rage seems to set in wildly seeking meaning and hoping to find it in things like the French Revolution, or in our time, cultural Marxism.

This trendy narcissism influences our youth way too much, cheered on by a nefarious Big Media,  unaided by parents whose 1960's narcissism left them not much giving a damn.

 

Cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against real human nature, but cultures are eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic origin of social behavior and by the leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect who we are. Real human nature, if honestly examined by sociobiology, affirms in general the populist nationalism and ethnostatism now trying to rise in the corrupted West.