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The only DIALOGUE you engage in is the same tired garbage you spout to defend an endless stream of self-aggrandizing filth designed, though always failing, to leave everyone with the impression that you are a tremendously learned individual of unequal intellect. But instead of being happy with that, as evidenced by your inability to acknowledge the merit of or walk away from any criticism, regardless how perfectly it hits its mark, you ask for more than to be silently admired: you so clearly hope that one of these days one of your supposed intellectual inferiors is going to say "Yes, Alex, you really are as amazing as you think you are." Of course, this never happens, as most everyone recognizes you for the pedantic, driveling idiot that you are, but this never causes you to miss a beat in your endless cycle of patting yourself on the back. Instead, you deny that you could possibly have the qualities of inflated self-worth and unjustified desire for deference that are generally called "narcissism," at which mention you are wont to apply your petulantly dismissive quotation marks. How on earth you can always find room to explain how you are somehow superior to the rest of us--either as an egoist, or an intellectual, or just as middle-aged human failure--and STILL be incapable of acknowledging that this behavior is either unusual, unjustified, or just plain wrong, is truly a masterful feat of blind stupidity. And for that, and nothing else, I must sincerely say "bravo."