Narcissism In Climate & Woke Victim Movements: Sam Vaknin on why we need a politics of overcoming

“We have transitioned from the age of dignity to the age of victimhood,” argues Israeli psychologist and narcissism expert, Sam Vaknin. “Every single political and social movement nowadays has converted itself into a victimhood movement. Many ideologies, which were not victimhood-oriented, have become victimhood-oriented.” Such is the case with the climate change movement. “This is all wrong,” said Greta Thunberg at the United Nations. “I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us, young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” It wasn’t always this way. “In the past, victimhood movements, for example, the civil rights movements in the United States, were not narcissistic,” Vaknin argues. “They were actually goal-oriented, purpose-oriented. Today most victimhood movements are about grandiosity.” You can probably tell why Vaknin’s warning resonates with me. I have chang