instead of engaging with criticism, instead of participating in the give-and-take that characterizes true intellectual discourse, the intellectual narcissists construct a narrative of persecution. They're not being critiqued; they're being silenced. They're not facing valid challenges; they're being attacked by the mob, by the "woke" left, by the forces of political correctness gone mad.
https://joanwestenberg.com/reinventing-the-wheel-to-burn-the-library-the-cycle-of-intellectual-narcissism
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