Over time, the concept of Ra settled in my head as… the spirit of collective narcissism, where we must recognize narcissism as delusional striving towards attaining the impossible social security of being completely beyond criticism, to be flawless, perfect, unimprovable, to pursue Good Optics with such abandon, as to mostly lose sight of whatever it was you were running from.
It leads to not being able to admit to most of the org’s imperfections even internally, though they may admit to that imprefection internally, doing so resigns them to it, and they submit to it.
I don’t like to define it as the celebration of vagueness, in my definition that’s just an entailment. Something narcissism tends to do, to hide.
Over time, the concept of Ra settled in my head as… the spirit of collective narcissism, where we must recognize narcissism as delusional striving towards attaining the impossible social security of being completely beyond criticism, to be flawless, perfect, unimprovable, to pursue Good Optics with such abandon, as to mostly lose sight of whatever it was you were running from.
It leads to not being able to admit to most of the org’s imperfections even internally, though they may admit to that imprefection internally, doing so resigns them to it, and they submit to it.
I don’t like to define it as the celebration of vagueness, in my definition that’s just an entailment. Something narcissism tends to do, to hide.