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Vanity is, if not the most powerful human emotion, surely among the least attractive. Test your vanity: How many of you (I confess) watched that news conference and thought, "#ITYSYFF?"*
(A lot, I'd guess.) Now, how many of you thought #ITYSYFF *before* you thought, "Holy shit, it's as bad as I ever dreamed, we and the world are so screwed?"
If the first thought arrived before the second, your narcissism's stronger than your survival instinct or your concern for the human race. That's *not* a good thing. Recalibrate.

*If you don't know what that stands for, look up Jack Hanson on the legacy of Robert Conquest.
(As for those of you who were deeply surprised by that news conference and *didn't* see it coming: The problem's with your survival instinct. Somehow you never learned how to figure out who's going to stick a knife in your back. Recalibrate.)
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