Profilicity: When your profile replaces your authentic self (Narcissism, Spectacle and Simulacrum)

Profilicity is replacing authenticity. Nietzsche's ““Become who you are!” is being transformed into Moeller’s: “become who you wish to be seen as.”

Outcome of crisis of authenticity.

Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory: second-order observation.

Charles Taylor’s Secular Age (2007) of authenticity.

Nothingness as antidote to Narcissism.

Ironically, authenticity by itself gave rise to collectivist identity

politics at the expense of individualism.

Authenticity is asocial: the Other and social expectations obstruct it.

Sartre (“hell is other people”, No Exit), Heidegger in Das Man.

SIMULACRUM (simulacra)

Spectacle, Integrated spectacle Détournement, Recuperation

Sam Vaknin (http://samvak.tripod.com/mediakit.html) is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited as well as many other books and e-books about topics in psychology, relationships, philosophy, economics, international affairs, and award-winning short fiction. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Management Studies in CIAPS (Commonwealth of International Advanced Professional Studies), Cambridge and Birmingham, UK; Ontario, Canada; Lagos, Nigeria; a Visiting Professor of Psychology and Economics in South East European University (SEEU); and a former Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-On-Don, Russia. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Politician and served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, Pop Matters, eBook Web, and Bella online, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He was the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. His YouTube channels garnered 100,000,000 views and 450,000 subscribers.