The Magic Mirror

Cultural Narcissism is common place across all demographics. It stems from us being under a constant barrage from the media. How we should look, act, what is successful and how to live. We are fed this from an early age, it becomes second nature and when children clamour for an I-pad their job is done.
As we grow older we notice that everything is not quite as perfect as it seems and a ring of dissonance appears. Yet we still try to keep up, while the people that clamour for our time and money get ever more desperate. It becomes a tail chasing exercise. Slowly people catch on. By then though after years of constant attack the inner narcissist is triggered. You did not realize that you were under attack but you become insular. No longer interested in others, except the people you hold dear.
That is the magic mirror, you think you are looking at your life, it projects the perfect life, a construct. As you become ever more dissatisfied the more you feel that it is your fault. You refuse to believe you've been taken in. You deny yourself.
You look at the people who, are just the same as you, look successful but it is all just a veneer. You are told that it is anything but you that is to blame and fed a constant stream of fear but you look upon the leaders valiantly fighting manufactured wars for your comfort. They are reflections of your inner battle. Between who you are and who society deems you to be.
It is all an illusion. Perpetrated by those around you. They are too enthralled in the mirror.