If you met some guy who kept telling you how great he was, and everyone wants to be like him, how would you diagnose him? He’s got a grandiose personality disorder. In other words, what he is actually doing is compensating for his deep insecurity. So that, this is a country [the United States] that in its very rhetoric betrays extraordinary insecurity.

Dr Gabor Maté | Capitalism Makes us Crazy (via america-wakiewakie)