Sorry if abstract meta questions are not your thing. I find it interesting to discover other perspective views.
I was in the shower with the thought, “Is any narcissist self aware of their narcissism?”
Maybe meta awareness of narcissism is like intelligence, beauty, or hearing one’s own voice. We may infer information based upon feedback, but lack an objective frame of reference.
On another level, I am aware of how I am abstract in functional thought, like inferencing across many unrelated spaces, and big-picture meaning. I’m aware of my intuition as it relates to others in general, but I’m not aware of my own beauty or intelligence as it contrasts with others.
Are there universal unknowns? Are we always ungrounded in all self perception; only overconfident in our self asserting narratives? What are your thoughts? Are you intelligently beautiful and teflon to the accusation of narcissism? Perhaps charisma is the ultimate superhero mask.
I am fully and wholly believing that basically no one is FULLY self-aware. We can be aware of our follies and wrinkles and foibles all day, but I guarantee you no one has an absolutely correct view of themselves. Ironically, the most self-aware people probably generally have a worse view of themselves than reality for the simple fact that the ones questioning themselves are on the minority side of reality.
In a more literal sense, I guarantee you humans are on the “ignorant” side of reality given that even wave/partical duality is so “unnatural” seeming let alone the concepts of non-locality or what 3+1 dimensions mean…