There is a bit of a challenge to define and describe what narcissism is. But you know it when you see it.   Separating the term from the psychological or personality disorder, wherein insecure and self-doubting individuals exhibit narcissistic behavior to protect or hide behind a veneer of confidence, what exists is a modality of human life that concerns itself with nothing else beyond....

What is most immediately striking about 12 Years As a Slave is the night and day contrast of the treatment and approach of Africans between the North and the South. The Yankees seamlessly integrate them into their society, allowing them to prosper at their own talents, benefitting society at large. The Dixies, obviously, view them as more productive domesticated animals; high-functioning....

Before entering into the cinder box, and being cast down into the wormy soil with those we surrounded ourselves with when our hearts murmured shedding tears and saying their remembrances, we want those remembrances to be of large statute. We don’t want to be remembered for how we ate apples, or how quirky our personalities were during football season. To have our funeral audience smirk at those....