Millions of People All Alone - Gadi Taub

The idea of authenticity of the individual is so well accepted among us that we are unaware of the depressing world of loneliness we live in, a world in which all people look only inwards, a world in which Narcissism is ideology. The problem with Narcissism is not its egotism, but rather its loneliness and alienation. The American world in which someone fall down in the street and you don't go to help the for the fear that he will sue you is not merely an incidental result of individualism. Within this individual's authentic self-loyalty lays the most pessimistic instinct: that everybody must look out for themselves.