https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488445
Imho both Nietzsche and Kohut concede that "grandiosity" is required, but what distinguishes these concessions
https://archive.ph/2025.12.22-054905/https://www.wsj.com/us-...
>I have little doubt that those who are able to achieve this ultimate attitude toward life do so on the strength of a new, expanded, transformed narcissism: a cosmic narcissism which has transcended the bounds of the individual.
Another example of "two fishes" (frogs?) struggling to leave ("ri") the aquatic
Kevin tells Stokes about his discovery of a general Stokes' theorem. Lord K doesn't realise its import (because he doesn't use it to simplify his "understanding"). Sir George doesn't do anything with it but sets it as an exam problem..
aeb links page curve to double descent: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089360802...
*As a culture, bisexuals are possibly the best at masking the grandiosity (thus sometimes getting diagnosed as _karens_), but when it's mixed with autism all bets are off?
(Somewhat) Tangentially:
Non-narcissistic (Golden mouth?) technology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441087
(I disagree with the first and last call but they could be examples of "cosmic narcissism")
Does my water/anātman/(justice over prudence)/... resemble K's comic narcissism?
Do people really have so much trouble with death? Or is it just the sort of person who becomes a psychologist? (No one seems to be anxious about the time before they were born, frex)
> we may recognize that what has been accomplished is not so much control but the acceptance of the ultimate insight that, as concerns the supreme powers of nature, we are all "sunday riders."
