US Parents Proclaim 811 ‘Messiahs’
16th October 2013
A US psychologist has warned of the dire consequences of a “stunning rise” in “vanity” names for kids, revealing that no less than 811 “Messiahs” were proclaimed during 2012, joining 243 Princesses, 588 Princes and a whopping 1,423 Kings on the list of newborns.
Jean Twenge used Social Security data to identify a growing trend among parents to slap their unfortunate sprog with glorious monikers, using infants as “opportunities to show off”, as the New York Post puts it.
Bet most of them are Democrats. Think about it.
Twenge – the co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic – puts this sorry state of affairs down to society’s “increasing vanity”. She said: “From the research literature we know that people who score high in narcissism also score high in trait called ‘need for uniqueness’.?When you get into these name that proclaims the child’s greatness, that takes it to the next level.”
Don’t forget ‘cluelessness’ and ‘viewing kids as fashion accessories rather than actual human beings’.
“Narcissism is toxic to others and to society. Narcissists tend to lack empathy, they tend not to be interested in helping others, they are aggressive when threatened and they take more for themselves and give less for others.
Democrats to a T.