What is in a word

A piece by Jan Hoffman in the New York Times recently went to work on the word “narcissism.” It noted that everyone and his brother is called a “narcissist” today, so that the word must lose its meaning. I apply "narcissist" to those who spend their lives admiring their own reflection, and by extension, to those who imagine the world revolves around them. Hoffman thinks we shouldn’t say “narcissist” until an official mad-doctor has given his or her opinion in a court of law. So I would reply: what if everyone and his brother IS a narcissist? Including the average court-appointed shrink? Does that mean no one is a narcissist anymore? The word “narcissist” is not flattering, and cannot be made flattering, without some supplementary effort to turn human nature upside down. Which doesn’t mean this hasn’t been tried. Verily, the generation after our whole education system was twisted to make “self-esteem” the highest virtue prized, we have an epidemic of narcissism. " David Warren

It used to be said that a rose by any other name is still a rose, I have often thought about the present effort to change a rose by changing its name. David sounds just like me. Let me see, there is homosexual now gay. There is group of close friends now family. There is having sex in the presence of each other now married …