{"id":61216,"date":"2023-11-10T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=61216"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:17:58","slug":"the-necessary-levels-of-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=61216","title":{"rendered":"The necessary levels of narcissism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/arts-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SMBC strip<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SMBC_ArtisticIdentity.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SMBC_ArtisticIdentity.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The mouseover title: \"I worry that with humanities departments being gutted we are no longer creating the necessary levels of narcissism to preserve civil society.\"<\/p>\n<p>The aftercomic:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SMBC_ArtisticIdentityAfter.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But surely, societal narcissism levels are unlikely to reach dangerous lows as long as business schools exist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent SMBC strip:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics-in-the-funny-papers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61219,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61216\/revisions\/61219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}