@snood,
Quote:...so full of narcissism or just plain crazy, and so bereft of common sense and self-awareness...
illegeracy, n.
1. An inability to make sense of one's cultural situation;
2. a failure to see the conditions of one's life as open to choice:
3. an abdicating of one's political power to help choose the direction of society.
SEE ALSO legible, elect, legislate.
4. Generally, a problem arising from a simultaneous and interlinked failure of the systems of mass media and education; low educational achievement and/or lack of self awareness and cultural perspective, exacerbated by over-reliance on digital media.
(paraphrasing an old word coinage by Jeff Smith)