Hypothesis: narcissism is negatively correlated with wholeness

To the extent that people do not experience themselves to be whole, and to have thereby have sufficient resources to deal with complexity, they will resort to narcissistic defences.  This is only natural, that a simplified and false self will handle the problems for which one is not yet well-equipped.  The problem is that society has normalized this state of not being whole, so that educational systems are geared toward those who are fragile and incomplete, rather than being designed to cater to robust personalities or to facilitate the development of whole people.  Even the term, "robust", now has the opposite meaning, since it tends to evoke a sense of one who is virulently narcissistic, rather than of one who is whole and reslient.  Our very language has been co-opted .by the systematization of abnormality as the new normal.