Egoism

   Egoism, egocentrism, narcissism, self love, self centrism and similar
   terms usually refer to a highly harmful [1]disease that makes one
   preoccupied with oneself, put himself before others, glorify himself
   and/or pursue purely his own personal [2]self interest, i.e. more or less
   being a [3]fascist with fascist radius encompassing only one's own body.
   This condition is extremely common e.g. in [4]Americans, but lately --
   under advancing [5]capitalism -- also in whole first world.

   Some signs of egoism include:

     * Drawing someone's own face (or letting someone else do it) and then
       using it for a profile picture. "Modern" soydevs on twitter and blogs
       are so guilty of this, especially the "game devs" with pixel art
       portraits etc., it's so narcissistic and cringe you just want to puke.
       Why would anyone humble even allow someone to make a statue of him,
       allowing the danger of cult of personality and becoming a [6]hero? Why
       the fuck do people obsess about forcing their ugly faces onto others?
     * Decorating one's body obsessively, trying to adopt an "image",
       especially with [7]tattoos, wild hairstyles, clothes that serves other
       purpose than pure protection from weather, for example a [8]suit etc.
       A good man will never try to look much different from how he'd look
       naturally, he will minimize effort put into caring about looks and
       will try to avoid the danger of applying manipulative psychological
       tricks such as appeal by looks.
     * Putting one's name in (or near) the title of his creation: one of the
       most famous examples being the Shit Faggot's Game Of Civilization.
       Yes, [9]Linux counts too; even though [10]Linus didn't name it
       himself, he just waited for someone else to do it for him and then
       didn't protest; he also joked about it, trying to make it look OK,
       though without success (see below).
     * Egoism masked as [11]joking (see also [12]doing it with a smile), i.e.
       doing something egoistic and then pretending to do it for the sake of
       a joke; for example in the book World of Warcraft Diary the author X
       puts a huge quote of himself on one page and jokingly writes under it
       "X quoting X in his own book" -- hahaha we laughed ok? It's not
       egoism, it's done for a joke, BTW the quote will stay there. The
       author here thinks he is smart as he thinks this achieves two things:
       promoting himself while also making him look like someone with a sense
       of humor. In fact it just makes him look like the most egocentric
       bastard.
     * [13]Assertiveness.
     * Giving oneself special names. Making a quick Internet handle is cool
       for practical purposes, inventing an artistic name or even changing it
       legally is just an inflated ego.
     * Talking about oneself too much.
     * Being a [14]capitalist; by definition a capitalist only cares about
       himself, capitalist is incapable of love or wanting any benefit for
       anyone else than himself, he only benefits others if he sees it will
       somehow lead to his own benefit in the future (this applies even to
       for example to caring about his own family etc.).
     * Using licenses that require giving credit, such as [15]CC-BY-SA.
     * Arriving late (bad timekeeping): by arriving late you're wasting the
       time of others and saving your own time, implying you think your time
       is more important, it's basically the same as physically beating
       someone. A good man will plan to arrive at least half an hour earlier
       so that even if he gets late, he'll still be on time, and if by some
       extreme miracle he still arrives late, he must pay the other one money
       or give him some other gift, for example free sex in case of woman.
     * "Personal pronouns". Also inventing weird sexes and identities for
       oneself.
     * Making (or allowing others to make) art that glorifies you, e.g.
       documentaries, books etc. You always have to oppose making any
       documentary, movie, statue and other kinds of works that would glorify
       you, even just slightly.
     * Being a [16]celebrity: this one without any exceptions. A well known
       man may not necessarily be a celebrity, but it is almost always the
       case, it would have to be someone who became famous while trying as
       hard as possible to not become famous. No, that one favorite celebrity
       of yours is not an exception to this. No, not even when he looks like
       a good man and when you've seen documentaries in which everyone said
       he's a humble man and when you've read he gives money to charity and
       hugs trees and saves puppies and feeds children in Africa.
     * ...

   Remember, to love others you mustn't love yourself too much, it helps if
   you hate yourself. Ideally you should love everyone equally, yourself and
   others too, but by loving yourself more you are hurting others while
   loving yourself less you only hurt yourself -- a truly [17]selfless man
   will rather choose to hurt himself than others, so it's always better to
   try to love yourself less.

Links:
1. disease.md
2. self_interest.md
3. fascism.md
4. usa.md
5. capitalism.md
6. hero_culture.md
7. tattoo.md
8. suit.md
9. linux.md
10. torwalds.md
11. jokes.md
12. doing_it_with_a_smile.md
13. assertiveness.md
14. capitalism.md
15. cc_by_sa.md
16. hero_culture.md
17. selflessness.md