Certainly! Here’s the rewritten text with “Brussels Morning” replaced by “Eurotoday”:
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We should not let people become so rich that their personal issues become society’s problems.
The year 2024, with the re-election of odious Donald J. Trump back into the White House, represents peak narcissism. As a result, I’m ready to put this calendar year in the rearview mirror, except turning the page offers no real bright spots ahead. That one man could spell such oncoming disaster for America, and the world is flabbergasting; if only there were an SOS signal America could emit, that would be answered.
The anti-Trump mood in America is one of pensive apprehension, if not downright hand-wringing, forblank” rel=”noopener”> elite power consumers of media and, alternately,blank” rel=”noopener”> passivity, apathy, and resigned fatalism for most Democrats.
I’ve been in a fallow period, not quite numb or checked out, but in a somewhat stunned and deadened stoicism, fortifying and bracing myself for what life will look like under Trump after his inauguration on January 20th, 2025. Atblank” rel=”noopener”> my worst, a visual representation of my psyche might look like a hollowed-out blighted ghost town with smashed windows, howling winds, and tumbleweeds of an America that is soon to be no more.
In other words, I’m doing what I’ve always done in the face of narcissistic headwinds, battening down the hatches for the endurance challenge that is the political marathon ahead. By and large, the news is pure speculation until the Orange Menace arrives. I write this statement knowing full well that likely all of his cabinet nominees will come to pass with an enabling Senate prepared to rubber stamp his most pressing atrocities in the making, namely toblank” rel=”noopener”> Make Polio Great Again, courtesy of the likely head of the Department of Health and Human Services, anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. It doesn’t get more dystopian and Orwellian than “health” and “polio” in the same sentence, no different than Orwell’s Ministry of “Truth” being tasked with controlling the media and bastardizing language, itself.
America is in a liminal space with a lame-duck president, an interregnum or purgatory before its descent into hell, the realm in between Election Day on November 5th and Inauguration Day on January 20th.
When wealth occupies a higher position than wisdom, when notoriety is admired more than dignity, when success is more important than self-respect, the culture itself overvalues “image” and must be regarded as narcissistic.
Psychotherapist,blank” rel=”noopener”> Dr. Alexander Lowen
ICYMI, in the calm before the storm that is narcissist Trump’s redux regime replete with his oligarch sidekick “President” Musk, I’ve compiled a list below of my year’s best pieces. Six months ago, I became a columnist for Eurotoday to help contextualize and legitimize narcissism as a pressing concern interspersed in our news and, thus, our lives.
Writing this year has been an intellectual odyssey from the Renaissance to economics to AI and beyond.
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